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STATE OF THE AAAC
BY ADRIAN MELLO
Into the Next Decade
Reckoning the Mac’s momentuvi
I EN YEARS AGO, ON JANUARY
24, 1984, Apple unveiled the
Macintosh. The arrival of the
Mac was one of the two most
important events in the last 15
years of personal computing.
The other event was the ap-
pearance of the IBM PC about
two years earlier, which legiti-
mized personal computers and
inaugurated the widespread
DOS operating system. The
Macintosh has offered the only viable al-
ternative to DOS computing. In an indus-
try distinguished by fast-paced innovation,
the Mac has been the key force of techno-
logical progress. Consider the now wide-
spread adoption of the graphical user in-
terface, the drive toward plug-and-play
computing, and other concepts popular-
ized by the xVlac.
On the same day that Apple unveiled
the Macintosh, Manvoi'ld magazine ap-
peared alongside the new computer —
making Macworld the only major com-
puter magazine that debuted on the same
day as the system it covers. From the very
beginning, Macworld has been committed
to the Macintosh and the intelligence of
its approach to computing. As the Macin-
tosh moves forward into the next decade,
Macwo7‘ld is more committed than ever to
the Mac and to keeping you informed of
all its significant developments.
We mark this anniversary by taking
stock of the machine’s accomplishments,
its missteps, and its impending future. We
start with “Macintosh Innovations” by se-
nior associate editor Galen Gniman and
contributing editor Jim Heid, which
chronicles the Mac’s evolution while an-
swering many key questions. In the last
ten years what has made the Mac unique?
V\Tien has the Mac been successful and
when has it gone astray? Wliat has the
Mac contributed in the way of technol-
ogy? In what v/^ys does the Mac need to
transform as it enters the ne.xt decade?
Planetary Alignments
Often an anniversary^ is only a mathemati-
cal eventuality. But the Mac’s tenth birth-
day is surrounded by portentous events, as
if all the planets were lining up for some
defining moment. Last summer began
with an eclipse casting a long shadow on
Apple’s future. Disappointing financial
returns, changes in top management, and
the layoff of 2500 workers darkened con-
fidence in Apple’s long-term prospects.
Another more ambiguous planet fell
into alignment at the Newton’s introduc-
tion last August. The Newton is Apple’s
first major new computing device since
the introduction of die Mac. The Newton
has been justly criticized as a promising
technology that was prematurely offered
as a product. Apple called on its own past
to rationalize the Newton’s lack of prac-
tical applicadon by comparing it to the
original 128KMac. This comparison was
unfortunate because the 128K Mac was a
more useful machine from the outset (you
could easily create written and graphical
documents with it). Furthermore, with
this statement Apple inadvertently admit-
ted its failure to learn the xMac’s ten-year-
old lesson of why a product should not be
introduced without all the features re-
quired to make it a useful product.
A more propitious sphere orbited into
view with the fall introduction of three
new low-cost models, the Quadra 605, the
Performa 475, and the LC 475. Basically
the same machine with three different la-
bels, this new low-cost family is a remark-
able achievement. After three years of re-
structuring to become a low-cost pro-
ducer, Apple has finally reached (and per-
haps exceeded) price/performance parity
with comparable DOS computers. Apple’s
new machines are as fast as the Quadra
700, which was Apple’s fiistest model
when it was introduced a mere two years
ago, but die 700 went for six to eight times
the price of the Quadra 605. It’s taken ten
years, but new Mac models offer nearly
the same price/performance as PCs.
PowerPC’s Sphere of Influence
The greatest planet is hovering on the
horizon. The Mac’s tenth anniversary falls
just before the dawn of PowerPC-based
Macs. PowerPC lies at the very heart of a
new high-performance Mac hardware
platform that will replace the decade-
old 68000 processor family. Contribut-
ing editor Lon Poole, who
ten years ago introduced
Macworld's readers to the
original Mac, shows you in
“PowerPC Preview” how
this powerful new proces-
sor family lays the founda-
tion for the Macintosh
computers of the next
decade. (Macworld Com-
munications also recently
introduced a newsletter
called Power PC World that
provides the industry with
coverage of the PowerPC.)
One of the most im-
portant aspects of the
PowerPC chip architecture
is that it is scalable, which
means that it offers tre-
mendous potential for im-
provements in processor speed. Although
the chip’s initial perfonnance will be im-
pressive, this is only an inkling of the per-
formance of future versions. PowerPC
will give birth to a revitalized incarnation
of the Mac platform, and its speed will
support exciting future technologies and
applications.
The Macintosh Mystique
The Macintosh has always been more
than just another computer. Even before
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MACWORLD February 1 994 2 1
STATE OF THE MAC
die Mac’s debut, the bold “1984” Super
Bowl TV commercial suggested that this
was no ordinary computer but an agent
of social change, striking a blow against
conformity and authoritarianism. From
that moment on, the Mac’s proponents
have championed its cause with ardent
conviction.
No examination of the Mac’s ten-year
life would be complete without consider-
ing the expectations that have built up
around it. In “Macintosh Mystique,” se-
nior associate editor Charles Filler exam-
ines the extent to which Apple delivered
on its promises about the Mac. He points
out that some of Apple’s claims have not
served the Mac’s best interest because
they have alienated potential users who
might otherwise have profited from the
machine’s inherent virtues. On the other
hand, in The IcotwchsU contributing editor
Steven Leiy, who has covered the Mac
from its ver)^ beginnings, concludes that
the Mac has really changed the world.
Contributing editor David Pogue
provides a more humorous assessment in
The Desktop Critic, he looks at programs
that have weathered the test of time, and
those that have withered. Members of the
original Mac team saw themselves as
rebels and, in an incident that is now a
mainstay of Mac mythology, hoisted a pi-
rate flag above tlieir quarters to demon-
strate their rejection of the computing sta-
tus quo at Apple. In his Wise Guy column
this month, contributing editor Guy
Kawasaki tells how Apple might have
swept away the IBM PC and made the
Macintosh the status quo.
Giving the AAac Its Due
It’s clear from any thoughtful e.xamination
that innovation has been and will be die
key to the Mac’s success. Apple and the
Macintosh development community must
continue to innovate to maintain the
Mac’s charter and remain true to its spirit.
However, another lesson of the last ten
years is that even innovative computers
must be priced competitively and inte-
grated effectively into customers’ existing
work environments.
In most respects, Apple appears to
have learned from its mistakes. Witness
the fact that there is now littie or no price
penalty for purchasing the extra level of
quality that a Mac offers. Recent state-
ments from Apple’s leadership indicate
that the company no longer views the
Mac’s technological advantages as a way
to increase profit margins, instead seeing
them as a tool for building market share.
Apple still wants to offer unique advan-
tages to Macintosh users, but without
shutting them off from the rest of the
world. The recent introduction of the
Quadra 610, DOS Compatible version, a
Mac with a 486SX processor board, is one
indication of Apple’s new willingness to
help customers share a workplace with
DOS and Windows applications.
My reading of the planetary signs is
that, as Apple emerges from the shadows
of last year’s difficulties, the Macintosh
will resurge with vitality. It’s ironic that
industry obser\^ers continue to speculate
about the long-term survival of the
Macintosh. While most computers and
their makers come and go faster than
failed television series, Apple and the Mac
have survived and prospered. (Other than
IBM and Compaq, most of today’s recog-
nized makers didn’t even exist ten years
ago.) After ten years everyone should ac-
knowledge that, although the Mac has not
taken over the world, it is an abiding suc-
cess by any reasonable measure. From our
vantage point at Macworld, we will con-
tinue to follow the Mac’s course as it e.x-
plores — and creates — new realms, m
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■ DISAGREE WITH DR. TESSLER’S
largely negative view of the Apple Ad-
justable Keyboard (“The Apple Adjustable
Keyboard,” November 1993). Tm a fairly
fast touch-typist, and I find the keyboard’s
flaws to be relatively small and its advan-
tages to be great, particularly in view of
the fact that it costs die same as Apple’s
e.xtended keyboard.
Most of the complaints that Dr.
Tessler cites are exacdy the kinds of things
people would complain about if they used
the keyboard for a two- or three-week
period, which is how much he said his test
audience used it. Keyboarding is a ha-
bitual activity, and the whole point is that
you don’t have to think about it — it’s sup-
posed to be unconscious. Any change,
even a small change, in layout is uncom-
fortable because it disrupts your fingers’
knowing where to go. I found that it took
me a month to get used to even a ‘/ 4 -inch
split in the keyboard.
The criticism that the palm-rest pads
come off too easily is trivial. It’s true that
they come off easily. They also go back on
easily. If you want them to stay put, fas-
ten them with a piece of duct tape, or that
gummy stuff for getting candles to stick
inside the candleholder.
The alternatives that Dr. Tessler de-
scribes sound excellent, but I’m not ready
for one that costs 2000 bucks and takes
200 hours of training to adapt to.
Lorin Rocbe
Venice^ Califoniia
Y our article confirmed my
experience with the keyboard eight
months ago, when Apple loaned me one
to test. First, it is not as good a key-
board — ignoring ergonomics — as Apple’s
owTi extended keyboard. Second, its atten-
tion to ulnar deviation (bending the wrist
tow'ard the little finger) may be marginally
helpful, but it amounts to a hill of beans.
CTDs (cumulative trauma disorders) re-
sult from a host of fiictors ranging from
table height to chair support to keyboard
force. Third, it’s just too expensive. Is
Apple profiting on CTD fears? Fourth,
there are almost 20 third-party key-input
devices, not to mention voice-driven sys-
tems, including the key-“chording” mod-
els you described. Many are more effec-
tive for reducing CTD risk factors.
To give Apple its due, your article
didn’t give Apple credit for the ergonomic
mouse it introduced earlier this year with
the ergonomic keyboard. The mouse is a
model of good ergonomic design. I love it.
Mark A. Pinsky
Yardley, Pennsylvania
I LIKE THE WORD ERGONOMIC . IT’S
like the word organic in that it’s mu-
tated into a catchall for u.se w herever one
likes. When I read Dr. Franklin Tessler’s
article in the November Maavorld, I was
suq^rised and a little miffed at his negative
approach to reviewing Apple’s Adjustable
(not Ergonomic) Keyboard.
I used the keyboard for the first time
at the 1993 Macworld Expo and knew
right then that I wanted one. I spent a
week not just using it, but pret/.eling it
into all the different positions and con-
figurations 1 could twist it into. That’s
what I thought adjustable meant — if you
don’t like it one way, change it! Make it
work! Did we forget what the B in ADB
means? It means Bus — electronic connec-
tion! Put those input devices anywhere
you want them, in any order. Reassign the
keys, use your imagination!
Kelly Gates
Twin Fallsy Idaho
Faxnieister Kawasaki
R egarding your November fax-
etiquette column (Wise Guy), I
thought I’d send you a few tips for good
faxing that you missed.
• Watch the edges! Most fax ma-
chines don’t print on a ‘/ 4 -inch or more
margin on each edge. If the paper skew's
or is off center, you’ll lose even more. I
often get faxes missing notes because they
were written in those margins. Also, the
machine’s imprinted header may obliter-
ate the top ‘/»-inch of the page.
• Don’t use a pencil, and be careful of
what color pen you use. MTien I first got
my fax machine, I wrote out a test sheet
w'ith every pen I could find in my studio,
and then faxed it to myself using a friend’s
machine. The results w'ere illuminating.
• For tints and halftone images, use
a coarse screen. Using a dithered bitmap
instead of a normal halftone screen for
photo images is also effective.
In the past, I have sent clients lists of
faxing recommendations. It seems so silly
to have to follow up a fax with a phone call
to decipher the fax.
James Ncedlmn
Canoga Park, Califotwa
U sually i agree with guy
Kawasaki, but I do have a couple of
bones to pick w'ith him about fax etiquette.
We use our fax machine extensively to
communicate with clients and vendors,
and our logo and border have become a
recognized trademark. The recipients of
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CORRECTIONS
■ In the ^Workflow Automation: One
Usefo?‘AOCE" sidebar (“AOCE — Applets
Planfo?' Groupware, ^^Novembe?' 1993), we
did not state that Shana Ccnpoj'ation's In-
formed Manager 1.4 actually ships with
Shana^s Informed Foundation 1.4. The
package lists for $495, and also includes In-
formed Designer 1.4, Infomied Numbe?'
Se7^er 1.0, and hifofmed Revision Dis-
tributor 1.0.
■ The ^^New Powe?‘Book Duos'^ feature
(Dece?nbei‘ 1993) incoirectly identified the
SCSI port on Apple's Macintosh Duo Dock
as a DB-25 port instead of an HDI-30 port.
Also, Global Village Communication's
PowerPort/Duo fax modem should have
been listed at $399.
■ In Deceitiber's ''New 040 Macs" fea-
ture, in the table "Apple's Current Desktop
Macintosh Lineup," we shotdd have indi-
cated that there is no option for built-in
Ethernet on the Quadra 605; a PDS card
(available Jro?n several vendors) is required.
Also, the maximum RAM that can be in-
stalled on a Quadra 650 is 136MB, not
132MB. Finally, the base p7‘ice of the
Pe?fo77/ia 550 is $2000, not $1200, and
the Quadra 660AV runs at 25MHz, not
33MHz.
m Decemba^'s review of Mr. File 2.0
should have stated that the product uses
200KofRAM,not 20K.
our faxes know immediately who they are
from. The same is true of some faxes that
we receive — ^we can recognize them from
across the room.
There’s also one thing that Guy left
out. Do not under any circumstances send
a cover sheet unless it contains useful in-
formation. A full sheet of paper stating
that 17 more pages follow is an insult to
the recipient.
Diuine Olesm
Cheymne, Wyoming
Loopy Levy? (Mostly)
fill STEVEN LEVY SHOULD
mfmm tune in to a more earthbound set
of voices {The Iconoclast, November 1993).
Better yet, he should go find something
more productive to do with his Mac than
kiddie games and multimedia gimmicks.
For us grunts in the real world, the
CD-ROM is fast becoming an indispens-
able tool. The fact that I have gobs of clip
art and stock photos on the shelf lets me
service customers that I couldn’t other-
wise touch (the “I want it cheap and I want
it now” crowd). In addition, desktop scan-
ners are OK, but in terms of cost and
quality, they can’t approach a Photo CD.
Eric P. Otto
Cha74otte, North Ca7‘olina
C riticizing a cd-rom for being
slow is like criticizing a Ferrari for
not being able to carry six full-size adults.
A CD-ROM’s reason for existence is its
capacity, noncorruptibility, and low pro-
duction costs. Which would you rather
have: five high-density disks with an ap-
plication and ancillary files diat take for-
ever to decompress and install, or one
CD-ROM that transfers the entire appli-
cation and files to your hard drive in a
minute or so? And have you ever had to
reinstall an application for some reason,
only to find that one of the installation
floppies had become unreadable?
George Graves
Mountain View, Califo77iia
S TEVEN, I ALWAYS ENJOY YOUR
columns, as they are thought-provok-
ing, even if I don’t agree. I’ll even keep
looking for you, hidden in the middle of
the magazine.
I agree with you about CD-ROMs;
they are too slow. But what I find more
annoying is that you can never tell what’s
going on. Searches on my Centris 610’s
CD-ROM do not seem to cause the stop-
watch icon to appear, and the drive is
so quiet that you can’t hear when it is
going. Often when I click on an icon in a
program running from the CD-ROM,
I can’t tell if it is searching or if some-
thing went wrong. All that said. I’m glad
I have my drive. There won’t be any ac-
ceptable substitute for several years, and
I’d rather have the multimedia now, slow
though it is, than sit it out and wait for a
better implementation.
Lany Rosenblum
via CompuServe
Reinventing the Mac
A pple should have considered
licensing its operating system ten
years ago, not today {State of the Mac, No-
vember 1993). While Apple has played it
safe by milking the Mac for all it could, no
vision existed for a next-generation oper-
ating system. The rest of the computer
world is poised to blow right past the old
Mac OS, and Apple will be left in the dust.
A dozen years ago, Apple bet the fann
on the Mac and profited tremendously.
The company should make its mission to
reinvent the personal computer, again.
Bruce Fraser
Alamo, Califo7nia
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NCSA Secui-es FTP
I N A RECENT ARTICLE ON NETWORK-
ing products for the Macintosh (“Glo-
bal Connectivity,” October 1993), Joel
Snyder wTites that NCSA Telnet doesn’t
require a password for FTP access.
NCSA Telnet’s built-in FTP server
can either require a valid user name and
password or not, depending on how you
set it up. Granted, the interface for con-
figuring this option is not straightforward,
but that has been corrected in NCSA
Telnet 2.6.
Jim Brmne
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Champaign, Illinois
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can be set up to require a password. Our real con-
cern (mangled In the writing and editing process)
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essentially unlimited access to local Mac files if the
FTP server is activated. Users simply loading NCSA
Telnet might not realize that they've left themselves
open for anyone to access their hard disk. — Ed.
Rolaling Scans
I N THE ARTICLE ON OCR PROGRAMS
in the November 1993 issue, you state,
“TypeReader cannot rotate scans, which
means that you can’t work with text doc-
uments printed in landscape mode unless
you use an image editor” (“OCR: The
Recognition You Deserve”).
This is wrong. To scan landscape doc-
uments, you just click the plainly labeled,
hard-to-miss landscape button on the
floating window. If you have a prescanned
TIFF file that is in landscape mode, you
will have to use another program to rotate
the image, but I’ve pushed many land-
scape documents through TypeReader
without using an auxiliary program.
Edward Reid
via Intauet
Edward, you said what we meant; tiny gremlins must
have rearranged the words after they left our of-
fices. No, wait. We are the tiny gremlins that re-
arrange words.
There's still a problem with TypeReader's ap-
proach In that If you have a large batch of prescanned
documents, rotating them requires another appli-
cation — and many more steps. — Ed.
Checking Up on Grammar
D avid pogue’s piece on gram-
mar checkers is still correct, even af-
ter all these years {JThe Desktop Critic, No-
vember 1993). In most respects the job
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seems to be too complicated and subtie for
rule-based software to accomplish accu-
rately and usefully. Used another way,
though, some of these checkers can be
quite helpful. Correct Grammar and
Grammatik 5 for Macintosh, and maybe
some other programs Pogue mentioned,
can calculate readability scores, including
indicators of the grade level at which you
are writing, as well as the average length
of sentences and words, percentage of sen-
tences in passive voice, and other such
general measurements.
I often run the Microsoft Word ver-
sion of Correct Grammar with all the
rules turned off when I think I’m about
ready to go to press. Turning off the rules
avoids all the false alarms and obtuse and
arcane warnings the rule-based checker
usually throws up, but the general scores
let me know when I am writing sentences
that are too long, copy that requires a
14th-grade education to read comfortably,
words that may confuse a general-audi-
ence reader, or too many passive-voice
sentences. Then, using the scores I get, I
go back to the original copy and shorten
my sentences, remove passive voice, and
put in a two-cent instead of a ten-cent
word here and there. While the programs
often get it wrong on a sentence-by-sen-
tence run with rules turned on, as Pogue
described, they give useful feedback when
used as I describe. It really helps get me
to that seventh-grade level most people
find easy to read — but it lets ?ne do it in-
stead of schoolmarming me to death.
Ji?n Upchurch
Montgo??iery, Alabattia
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System 7 for PowerPC Coes Beta At
Comdex in mid-November, Apple announced that it had
begun final testing of System 7 for PowerPC, perhaps
its most crucial product ever. The company said it expects
to ship the first PowerPC Macs with the new operating
system on schedule, sometime in the first half of 1994.
(See "Developers Back PowerPC," News, in this issue.)
New AppleScript, New HyperCard
Apple recently announced new versions of AppleScript
and HyperCard that work together to create multiple-
application environments, among other functions. The
$189 AppleScript Scripter's Kit will help automate tasks
that require several applications by linking functions
between standard application programs modified to
work with AppleScript. Available through Apple dealers
and APDA, the product includes AppleScript 1.1, an
enhanced script editor; and Frontmost Interface Proces-
sor, a front end for launching scripts. HyperCard 2.2 now
supports up to 256 colors and is scriptable, so it can be
used as an environment for launching AppleScript-aware
apps. It comes with Addmotion II for adding animations.
HyperCard 2.2 will list for $249; its introductory street
price is around $1 00. Upgrades from HyperCard 2.0 and
2.1 will be $89. Apple expected to ship AppleScript
Scripter's Kit and HyperCard 2.2 by the end of 1993.
High-End Accelerator from RasterOps
At press time, RasterOps released more details of its 24-
bit image processing accelerator called the RasterOps
Horizon 24 Graphics Subsystem (see the Graphics news
section in this issue). Due in mid-December, the Hori-
zon 24 will work with any existing NuBus Mac that can
hold a full-size card. A future 7-inch version will work
with the first PowerPC Macs. The initial version will list
for $4999 with 4MB of RAM, $5799 with 16MB, and
$12,499 with 64MB. A 256MB version is due in spring
at approximately $25,000. RasterOps, 408/562-4200.
DeBabelizer Lite Equilibrium's DeBabelizer
Lite is a streamlined, easier-to-use version of its DeBa-
belizer graphics file-translation and batch processing util-
ity. Lite doesn't let you customize translation settings
or translate animation files, but it does automatically
handle basic tasks such as mapping color palettes, resiz-
ing images, and applying preconfigured filters. It rec-
ognizes over 55 graphics and animation formats, includ-
ing DOS, Windows, SGI, and Amiga, as well as
Photoshop plug-ins. Due by the end of 1993, Lite's street
price should be under $100. Equilibrium, 415/332-4343.
Apple Licenses Radius Accelerator
Apple will offer a 24-bit graphics accelerator based on
Radius's PrecisionColor Pro 24x board, according to
Radius. Apple confirmed the agreement, but at press
time the company declined to give details of its version
of the board or say when it will be available or at what
price. Capable of supporting two-page monitors, the
PrecisionColor Pro 24x lists for $2495 from Radius.
RAM Doubler Connectix has introduced a
$99 system extension called RAM Doubler, which com-
presses part of the contents of 040 Macs' system RAM,
effectively increasing the RAM's capacity by nearly a
factor of two. Slated to ship in January. Connectix,
415/571-5100.
Apple Tests Its Home Shopping System
Apple, EDS, and Redgate Communications Corporation
have launched En Passant, a pilot version of a CD-
ROM-based, interactive home-shopping service that will
include 21 catalogs from well-known companies. Apple
and its partners are sending the CD-ROM mostly to
home users of registered Mac-compatible CD-ROM
drives. The pilot program will be evaluated after it ends
on January 31 , 1994. m
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IN THIS ISSUE
p. 35 Support for PowerPC p. 36 Tax Software p. 36 Low-Cost 20-inch Monitor
p. 37 Portable Floptical Drive p. 37 Video E-Mail
p. 37 17-inch Radius Monitor p. 38 Color Thermal-Fusion Printer p. 38 40MHz 040 Accelerator
Apple Ships Its First Mac with DOS
The Quadra 610, DOS Compatible version runs DOS 6.2 and System 7 concurrently. The system can support
two monitors, one for DOS. With one monitor, users can toggle between the environments.
S aying that its basic Macin-
tosh platform strategy has
not changed, Apple recently
announced the company’s first
computer to come with DOS
installed. The Quadra 610,
DOS Compatible version is a
vanilla Quadra 610 with an
Apple-designed 486SX pro-
cessor card bundled in and
DOS 6.2 on the hard drive
along with System 7. Apple
sees this machine selling to
home offices where there are
several users; to schools; and to
individual professionals and
small businesses. One scenario
is a user who wants the Mac’s
ease of learning and use, but
needs to run one critical DOS
apphcation that’s not available
on the Mac. Apple doesn’t
expect this system to appeal to
the corporate market because
the current version has no net-
work connection on the DOS
card. Orange Micro sells a
series of similar DOS add-in
cards that offer a variety of
networking options, but these
are more expensive than
Apple’s solution, which has a
preliminary price of “less than
$500 more than a Quadra
610,” according to Apple.
Apple will .sell its DOS
Compatibility Card separately
as an upgrade for existing
Quadra 610s and Centris
610s; its preliminary price is
“around $500.”
The card contains a VGA
display chip set, a single 72-
pin SIMM connector that
supports up to 32MB of RAM,
and a 25MHz 486SX chip that
can run concurrently with the
Mac’s processor. Designed to
support a second monitor, the
card lets you attach one mon-
itor that displays the Mac
interface and another with
DOS or Windows running. In
that configuration, the cursor
moves between the two
screens in the usual way. If you
only have space or a budget for
one monitor, you can toggle
between DOS or Windows
and the Mac by hitting a hot
key. You can set up the system
so that the DOS add-in card
and the Mac share the RAM
on the Mac motherboard, but
if you add RAM to the single
SIMM connector, the DOS
module can no longer use the
34 February 1 994 MACWORLD
motherboard RAM.
The two operating sys-
tems share the same I/O and
the hard drive. Apple has set
up some clever ways of trans-
lating file names, and it has
also supported cut-and-paste
between the environments (so
far, only for text and PICT
files). Apple said it will include
software that will convert
Epson printer-control char-
acters to QuickDraw, so you
can use a standard Mac print-
er to print your DOS files.
The company said that con-
verting the widespread HP
PCL printer-control language
to QuickDraw is more diffi-
cult and that the capability
may be added later. The Mac’s
built-in SuperDrive (Apple’s
standard floppy disk drive for
some time now) can read and
write standard DOS disks and
will appear to DOS as the A:
drive. Apple said it does not
plan to include Microsoft
Windows anytime soon, but
that the card can run it with-
out problems after the user
installs it.
The card comes with a
PDS adapter designed espe-
cially for it and a split cable to
support the two monitors. It
also has a built-in game port,
but no support for Sound-
Blaster as yet. Both the DOS
Compatibility Card and the
Quadra 610, DOS Compati-
ble version should be available
in the first half of 1994. Apple,
408/996-1010.-T.M.
Deueiopers
BacK PowerPC
APPLICATIONS GO NATIVE
E ven the most powerful
hardware platform is use-
less without application soft-
ware. The thought of Apple’s
upcoming PowerPC D-day
could easily bring back bad
memories of the Mac’s nail-
biting first year sans soft-
ware — except for two things.
First, the PowerPC Macs will
run existing Mac applications
in emulation mode; and sec-
ond, third-party developers
are enthusiastically working
on native PowerPC applica-
tions that will be much faster
on the new machines than
existing applications, because
the former are designed for
the new architecture.
Major Mac software de-
velopers are responding to the
PowerPC’s seductive songs of
speed and power, promising
that their native PowerPC
applications will appear either
at the same time as Apple’s ini-
tial rollout (expected some-
time in the first half of 1994)
or within 4 to 12 weeks after-
ward. This fall at the Seybold
San Francisco exposition, sev-
eral developers showed most-
ly stable beta versions of pop-
ular Mac applications ported
to the new platform. Adobe
demonstrated Photoshop for
the PowerPC, with the same
feature set as its Mac and
Windows siblings. Aldus
proved just how powerful the
PowerPC is by demonstrating
a native version of FreeHand
that reacted in something
approaching real time. Fractal
Design demonstrated the next
generation of Painter (code-
named Painter/X3), showing
real-time application of com-
plex, liquid brush effects.
Specular showed off a Power-
PC version of Infini-D sched-
uled to ship just as Apple is
rolling out the new hard-
ware — according to the com-
pany, its new image-composi-
tion program, Collage, won’t
be far behind. All of these
early applications will depend
heavily on the two things the
PowerPC chip and system
software excel at: QuickDraw
calls and floating-point math
calculations.
Other developers haven’t
actually shown applications
yet but have publicly commit-
ted to supporting PowerPC
with specific products. Claris,
being a wholly owned Apple
subsidiary, can be expected to
vote early and often with its
software development dollars.
Its stated goal is to have
ClarisWorks be the first
native PowerPC application
to ship. It is also currently
examining the rest of its prod-
uct line, especially MacDraw^
Pro and FileMaker Pro, with
an eye toward expanding its
PowerPC offerings.
With Canvas 4, Deneba is
taking an approach shared by
companies such as Microsoft.
They’re developing platform-
independent core code, and
then building Mac, Windows,
and PowerPC front ends onto
the basic instruction set.
Speaking of Microsoft, look
for PowerPC versions of
Excel 5, Word 6, and Works
4.0 (even though Works isn’t
part of the Microsoft core
code program) in the first half
of 1994. PowerPoint should
follow soon after to complete
the Microsoft Office suite.
HSC Software has prom-
ised native PowerPC versions
of Kai’s Power Tools and Live
Picture. Wolfram’s Mathe-
matica will also appear in
PowerPC form in 1994, ac-
cording to the company.
Desktop publishing res-
cued the Mac from an early
grave, and PowerPC early
adopters can count on native
continues
DayStar Cuts
Accelerator Prices
Claiming economies of scale,
DayStar has announced it is
dropping the list prices of most
of its accelerator boards for
Macs. The cuts range from $70
on a 50MHz Universal Power-
Cache without FPU (now $679),
to $300 on an Image 040
graphics accelerator with
40MHz 040 and twin DSPs
(now $2399). (See A/ews,
Macworld, November 1993.)
401/967-2077.
SyQuest Ups Warranty
to Rve Years . . .
SyQuest Technology recently
increased the warranty on its
44MB and 88MB removable
cartridges for its 5V4-inch
SyQuest drives to five years.
The new warranty policy covers
all cartridges shipped after
December 31, 1992. The
company's warranty on the
5V4-inch drives continues at
two years. 510/226-4000.
. . . And Radius Goes
for Life
If you own a Radius add-in
board of any kind, it's now
guaranteed for life if you're the
original owner, you have your
receipt, and you registered the
product within 30 days. Radius
says it will replace any defective
board within 24 hours at no
cost. 408/424-1010.
Claris CAD Discontinued
Claris has confirmed that it will
discontinue Claris CAD and will
continue to offer technical
support for the product only
through September 30, 1994.
Claris and Ashlar jointly
announced that Ashlar will offer
Claris CAD owners a $399
upgrade to Ashlar Vellum 2D
(normally $2495) and a $499
upgrade to Ashlar Vellum 3D
(normally $2995). DesignCAD
is separately offering a $99
upgrade to DesignCAD 2D/3D
Macintosh (normally $299).
Ashlar, 408/746-3900;
DesignCAD, 918/825-4848.
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February 1 994 3 5
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1st half 1994
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MacTools
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Ray Dream Designer 3.0
concurrent
Specular International
Collage
60 days
Infini-D
concurrent
Logomotion
60 days
Strata
Strata Studio Pro
concurrent
StrataVision
1994
VideoFuslon
VideoFuslon
NAPT
Wolfram Research
Mathematica
30 days
WordPerfect
WordPerfect 3.0
concurrent
NAPT = Not available at press time.
'After Apple's Introduction. May depend on last-minute changes to PowerPC architecture.
The 20-inch Mitsubishi Diamond Scan 20 Pius
offers resolutions up to 1280 by 1024.
versions of Aldus PageMaker
and Frame Technology’s
FrameMaker 4.0 to be avail-
able in relatively short order.
QuarkXPress, on the other
hand, will not be in the DTP
lineup. At press time. Quark
was hedging, quoting engi-
neering costs and doubtful
customer demand as reasons
to hold off on development.
Perhaps one of the most
important native PowerPC
sofhvare products on the way
is Insignia Solutions’ Soft-
Windows for the Macintosh
with PowerPC. The product,
developed in partnership with
Microsoft, is based
on the Windows
source code and
runs Windows
and MS-DOS ap-
plications at 486
PC speeds, w^hile
supporting PC
networks such as
Novell NetWare
and Microsoft
LAN Manager,
according to In-
signia. Informal
observations of
beta versions seem
to bear out this claim, giv-
ing Apple a powerful w'eapon
in the fight to attract Win-
dows and DOS users to the
new platform.
As for Mac developers
creating native PowerPC ver-
sions of their applications, the
question is no longer if they
will, but w'hen. The roster is
growing rapidly; many devel-
opers using Apple’s porting
tools report usable first ports
from clean Mac code in a
matter of days. Admittedly,
it’s a big step from ported
code to final product, but
even so, Apple has assembled
a formidable cadre of software
support. If all goes as
planned — and so far it seems
to be — the PowerPC jugger-
naut will be hard to stop.
—CAMERON CROTTY
unie Big
Monitor
LOW-COST 20-INCH DISPLAY
itsubishi is shipping the
Sft S Diamond Scan 20 Plus,
a high-resolution 20-inch
monitor. Mitsubishi is posi-
tioning the S2699 Diamond
Scan 20 Plus as a lower-cost
alternative to its Diamond Pro
20 and Diamond Pro 21FS.
The display offers a maxi-
mum resolution of 1280 by
1024 pixels at a refresh rate of
74Hz. It supports resolutions
as low^ as 640 by 480. Having
an antiglare coating on the
CRT glass instead of a bond-
ed panel reduces the cost by
about $300. Mitsubishi says
the coating reduces glare and
magnetic static.The monitor
meets the Swedish MPR II
guidelines for ELF emissions.
Mitsubishi, 714/220-2500.
—JOANNA PEARLSTEIN
in This uaie
01 TOKOS
THIS YEAR'S MACINTAX
I t’s that time of year again —
time to start thinking about
your taxes. This year ChipSoft
has two new tax-planning
products, MacInTax Tax
Planner and MacInTax Tax
Savings Guide. The company
has also upgraded MacInTax
itself, and now offers a total of
20 separate state-tax editions.
MacInTax Tax Planner is
a $29.95 tax-forecasting and
-analysis program. It uses
ChipSoft’s Easy Step inter-
view to g^ide users through
tax planning, and shows how
actions such as bu)dng or sell-
ing a home will affect future
tax liability. The MacInTax
Tax Savings Guide, $19.95, is
an interactive tax-strategy
guide with more than 250 tips.
In upgrading MacInTax,
ChipSoft: has stressed ease-of-
use. The interview^ feature has
been revised, and a new
deduction finder helps you
spot deductions you might
have missed. Printing should
be faster and more reliable
with the added TrueType
fonts, and improved memory
management speeds up scrol-
ling. MacInTax will have a list
price of $69.95, and state ver-
36 February 1 994 MACWORLD
TREND
iSpii Uideo mail
sions will cost $29.95 each.
Four different products for
taxes may seem excessive, but
ChipSoft offers a coupon-in-
the-box promotion, so buying
one product gets you a
coupon for money off anoth-
er. ChipSoft, 619/453-
8722.— WENDY SHARP
First 17-incl)
monitor trom
Radios
FILLING OUT THE LINE
A cknowledging the popu-
larity of 16- and 17-inch
color monitors, Radius has in-
troduced the PrecisionColor
Display 17. The 17-inch mon-
itor, the first such from
Radius, is intended to broad-
en the company’s product
line in smaller monitors. The
Trinitron-based, micropro-
cessor-controlled Precision-
Color Display 17 will be
priced above the Radius Preci-
sionColor Pivot Monitor, the
15-inch monitor that turns
from portrait mode (vertical)
to landscape mode (horizon-
tal). The list price was not set
at press time, in part because
Radius expects the display
industry to undergo price cuts
late in 1993 and will price the
monitor then. Shipments
should begin in January.
Radius, 408/434-1 01 O.-t.m.
Fiopiicai lor
rouierBoohs
IOMEGA'S BATTERY-
POWERED DRIVE
P owerBook users on the
run have yet another stor-
age option available to them:
Iomega’s battery-powered
floptical drive. Weighing
slightly over 2 pounds, the
$399 PowerBook Floptical is
about the size of a paperback
book. It stores up to 2 1MB of
data on a 3. 5 -inch disk, has a
ME IN MY MEMO
F irst there was
AppleTalk, then there
was E-mail. First there
was PowerTalk, and now
there’s video mail. Axion is
offering the iSpy Bundle, a
$799 combination of vid-
eo camera, board, and
AOCE-sawy soft-
ware that lets you
view your boss’s next
memo. The iSpy
color video camera
contains a unidirec-
tional microphone
for sound capture,
mounts on your
monitor or on an
optional stand, and
plugs into any digi-
tizing card using
standard NTSC or PAL
inputs. The 7-inch iMovie
video-digitizing board fits
into any NuBus Mac and
grabs motion video at up to
320 by 240 pixels in 16-bit
color at 24 frames per sec-
ond, depending on the
speed of the host Mac. The
data-transfer rate of 1 .6 Mbits
per second, and includes a
built-in HDI-30 SCSI cable.
Like other floptical drives,
the PowerBook Floptical uses
a combination of magnetic
and optical technology, reads
and writes to 21MB flop-
tical and 1.44MB standard
floppy disks, and is up to
three times faster than nonnal
floppy drives.
board also simultaneously
captures 16-bit stereo
audio at up to 44.1 KHz.
The software guts are
in the iMail video-mail
package that works with
the AOCE-to-video mail-
box; users can record, edit,
play back, send, and receive
QuickTime movies over a
network. The software,
board, and camera can be
purchased separately and
work independently with
other components. Axion,
408/522-1900.
—CAMERON CROTTY
The drive runs on a spare
battery designed for any
PowerBook 140 through 180,
or on most PowerBook AC
adapters. Additionally, Io-
mega’s Power Pass Through
cable (included) allows non-
color PowerBooks to share die
same AC adapter with the
PowerBook Floptical drive.
Color PowerBooks and Duos
require an additional Power-
Book AC adapter;
the PowerBook
Duo AC adapter’s
voltage is incom-
patible with the
Iomega product.
Iomega is sell-
ing die PowerBook
Floptical only
through the Apple
Catalog. Iomega,
801/778-1000;
Apple Catalog, 800/
795-1000.— JOANNA
PEARLSTEIN
The battery-powered PowerBook Floptical
stores 21MB and lists for $399.
The ISpy Video Bundle includes a desktop
video camera and video E-mail software.
ID iriei
Low-Cost Hammer Drives
FWB has introduced the low-
cost Hammer PE series of Mac
hard drives and removable-
cartridge drives. The hard drives
range from 170MB to 545MB,
with list prices from $529 to
$1139. An internal 128MB
removable-optical drive lists for
$1269, or $110 more for an
external version. FWB will offer
a 44MB SyQuest drive for $559,
an 88MB SyQuest for $745, and
a 105MB SyQuest for $899. All
are shipping. 415/474-8055.
Speeding Up LCs and LC ll's
Harris International is bringing
out the PerformerPro LC, a
32 MHz 68030 accelerator board
for the Macintosh LC and LC II.
The $349 accelerator has a
socket for a $100 FPU. Available
now, it Improves system
performance by up to 300
percent and meets Apple's
power budget for LC and LC II
add-in boards. 612/482-0570.
Focus Enters Display
Market
Focus Enhancements is shipping
a series of color, monochrome,
and gray-scale monitors, and a
series of display boards. The
color monitors range from 14
inches ($499.99) to 21 inches
($2699). The monochrome and
gray-scale monitors cost from
$379.99 to $749.99. The color
display boards start at $479.99
and top out at $1499. Mono-
chrome and gray-scale display
boards run from $299.99 to
$499.99. Focus also unveiled
the L TV series of TV output
boards for $899.99 to $1799.
617/938-8088.
Mac-to-DOS for Windows
This $99.95 software lets
Windows users with the appro-
priate hardware read and write
to Mac 1 .44MB floppies or to
SyQuest, Iomega, and remov-
able optical cartridges. It also
lets Windows machines format
Mac 1.44MB floppy disks. Now
shipping from Peripheral Land
Inc. (PLI), 510/657-2211.
MACWORLD February 1 994 3 7
THE AmCoEx index
OF USED MAC PR
ICES
MachIne/RAM/Hard Drive
Average
Saie Price
Monthly
Change
PowerBook 100/4MB/40MB
$725
-$75
PowerBook 140/4MB/40MB
$1000
-$100
PowerBook 180/4MB/80MB
$1800
-$175
PowerBook Duo 230/4MB/80MB
$1250
-$225
Mac Classlc/2MB/40MB
$500
-$50
Mac SE/30/2MB/40MB
$750
-$25
Mac LC ii/4MB/40MB
$600
-$125
Mac iisi/3MB/40MB
$650
-$150
Mac iici/4MB/80MB
$1100
-$100
Mac iifx/4MB/80MB
$1300
-$200
Centris 650/8MB/230MB
$1700
-$150
Quadra 900/8MB/160MB
$2850
-$100
Index provided by the American Computer Exchange of Atlanta, Georgia (800/786-0717). It reflects
sales during week of November 20. Configurations include keyboard and exclude monitor and dis-
play board for noncompact models.
I news
Radius RocHel;
The neut stage
HIGH-PERFORMANCE
MULTIPROCESSOR
W ith PowerPC Macs
looming on the hori-
zon, Radius is aiming for the
heights with a faster, 40MHz
68040-based version of its
Radius Rocket multiprocessor
add-in board. Designed for
existing Macs that have a full-
size NuBus slot, the new
Rocket, code-named T2, will
function only as a multi-
processor board under
Radius’s RocketShare soft-
ware. The previous version
could act as a multiprocessor
subsystem (also with Rocket-
Share) or as a system acceler-
ator when running under the
company’s RocketWare soft-
ware. The T2 board will now
ship widi RocketShare includ-
ed and also with an installed
SCSI-2 daughterboard that is
an option for the original
Rocket. The daughterboard
will be included because many
of the board’s multiprocessor
applications require fast and
frequent access to SCSI
peripherals, and because the
board will not be used purely
as an internal one-system
accelerator. RocketShare gives
a user network-access to mul-
tiple Rocket boards resident in
multiple Macs, so a task such
as manipulating a huge graph-
ics file can be parceled out to
those processors. A user can
also run multiple applications
at once, using multiple Rock-
ets or T2s. Another new fea-
ture is NuBus 90 bus-master
support, for faster data trans-
fers (up to 50MB per second)
to other NuBus 90-capable
boards. Macs that support Nu-
Bus 90 boards include the
Centris and Quadra lines.
Radius also says that its previ-
ously announced optional
dual-DSP daughterboard for
Rockets and T2s has been
delayed.
The company has im-
proved RocketShare by mak-
ing it possible for a Macintosh
user with no Rocket to access
the Rockets in remote Macs
over a network.
Radius expects to
announce and ship the T2 in
early January. Radius, 408/
434-1010.-T.M.
uersatiie
color rrinier
STAR MICRONICS' DEBUT
FOR THE MAC
L ongtime printer manu-
facturer Star Micronics
America has introduced its
first-ever product
for the Macintosh,
a desktop thermal-
fusion printer that
can generate col-
or or black-and-
white output.
Based on the com-
pany’s current SJ-
144 model for PC
compatibles and
intended for small-
office or home
use, the SJ-144-
MC produces 382
characters per sec-
ond at 360 dpi.
The thermal-fusion process
permanently bonds toner
(from a ribbon cartridge) onto
media including ordinaiy
printer paper, card stock, lam-
inated peel-off labels, and
transparencies.
The SJ-144MC features
three paper-handling meth-
ods: a 30-sheet automatic
sheet feeder, a straight-
through manual paper path
for inflexible media such as
card stock, and a manual
front-feed path for individual
sheets of plain paper. The
printer comes with 35 True-
Type fonts on a floppy disk. It
can print inverse images that
can be used for iron-on trans-
fers or bumper stickers. The
SJ-144MC requires System
6.0 or later. The company said
it plans to begin shipments in
January at a suggested list
price of $599. Star xMicronics,
212/986-6770.-T.M.
BUGS & TURKEYS
QuarkXPress 3.2 users have reported problems
using fonts whose ID numbers fall outside stan-
dard limits. The fonts don’t appear in QuarkXPress
menus and are therefore unusable. Quark says that
QuarkXPress 3.2 Patcher — available on AppleLink, Com-
puServe, and America Online — fixes the problem.
QuarkXPress 3.2 and Symantec’s Norton Utilities
Directory Assistance II are incompatible. The
conflict is with Norton and the EfiColor Processor in
QuarkXPress 3.2. S\Tiiantec says to remove the EfiColor
Processor from the QuarkXPress folder. Quark says to
remove S}miantec’s Director)^ Assistance. Symantec and
Electronics For Imaging are working on a fix.
Do you need to archive your faxes? For now, don’t
look to Global Village’s fax software: if you move
your faxes out of the Fax Spool folder in your System
Folder, you can’t open them. Global Village says the
problem will be fixed in a future version.
People who try to install Apple’s version of the
LaserWriter 8.0 driver after October 1 are greet-
ed witli die message “Decompressor Atom has Expired,”
and a system crash. The workaround is to reset your sys-
tem clock to before October 1 or install version 8.1.1,
which is available on CompuServe or America Online.
MacworUl will send you a Bug Report T-shirt if you are the first
to inform us of a serious, reproducible bug that we report in this
column, or a Turkey Shoot T-Shirt if we shoot your turkey in
this space. See How to Contact Macworld.
The $599 SJ-144MC Color Printer can produce
CMYK color images or black text.
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AP PhotoLynx Pro
Transmitting photos from the war-tom
hills of, well, anywhere in the world? This
portable PowerBook docking station
contains a Nikon Coolscan slide scanner
and ships with custom photo preview-
ing and transmission software. The
whole package (with PowerBook)
weighs about 15 pounds, but the
PowerBook is sold separately. An inter-
nal battery is also available. $6750. Asso-
ciated Press, 212/621-7833, 800/453-
8883; no fax.
AP PhotoLynx Pro
CV Link
What's on TV tonight? Your Madntosh
screen, with the aid of this digital scan
converter. The product is an external box
that converts standard Mac 640-by-480
RGB output into an NTSC composite, S-
Video-quality signal. No software is
required, and the CV Link ships with all
necessary cables and an AC adapter.
Requires Mac LC. $599. Display Tech,
510/676-9362, 800/578-8546; fax
510/676-9335.
EnviroMac
Give your Macintosh power over the
world that surrounds It with this environ-
mental-control package. The hardware
end Is an RS-232 peripheral with 16 ana-
log and 4 digital inputs, plus an X-10
compatible controller and 6 or 12 hard-
wired voltage outputs. The ADControl
software shows data by list, graph, or
custom display. Users can define sensor
types, calibration equations, sampling
frequencies, and up to 40 conditional
rules per device. Measurements can be
saved to disk at specified inten/als as
ASCII text files. A light sensor and a tem-
perature sensor are also Included. $899.
Remote Measurement Systems, 206/
883-7000; fax 206/328-1787.
G-Vox
If you've ever wanted to blaze on guitar
like Steve Vai or Joe Satriani, this hard-
ware-software combination will let your
Madntosh help you out The hardware
end is a lightweight pickup that you
attach to your electric or acoustic guitar
with suction cups. The pickup translates
the string vibrations into digital signals
that your Mac understands. The soft-
ware interprets these signals and figures
out which note you played. Several
packages are available, including li-
braries of licks and technique exercises
from the likes of Steve Morse, Carl Ver-
heyen, and Greg Davis; and Tour, a
game that increases fretting speed and
accuracy. G-Vox $399; Tour $59. Lyrrus,
215/922-0880, 800/789-4869; fax
215/922-7230.
Intelligent Data
Equipment Adaptor
It never fails that you're on the road with
your cellular phone, and you need to
send a fax from your PowerBook, or log
on to Internet. This adapter plugs Into
AT&T, Motorola, NEC, OKI, and other
cellular phones, and provides an RJ-1 1
jack into which you can plug your
modem phone cord. As far as your
modem is concerned, it's talking to a
Intelligent Data Equipment Adaptor
standard phone line. The product
requires a 9-volt battery and ships with
a phone-spedfic adapter cable. $249.95.
ORA Electronics, 818/772-2700; fax
818/718-8626.
MegaHaus Drive
Sure, you don't have the biggest Mac or
the whizbangiest processor, but that
doesn't mean you can't have massive
amounts of storage at your fingertips.
This internal 3V^-inch hard drive is
designed specifically for the LC family of
Macs and offers 1GB of storage space,
with average access times around 9ms
and a Fast SCSI-2 Interface. The drive
ships with mounting hardware, and an
external version is also available. Internal
$1149; external $1199. MegaHaus,
713/333-1925, 800/786-1173; fax
713/333-3024.
Mirror Coolscan ZFP
Keep your scans cool with this 2700-dpi
SCSI slide scanner, which uses Nikon's
LED light-source technology to deliver
consistent 24-bit scans at low power
consumption with no warm-up time —
an average low-resolution scan takes
about two and a half minutes. The scan-
Mirror Coolscan ZFP
ner can handle mounted or unmounted
slides — unmounted slides can be loaded
into the six-frame filmstrip holder. The
product ships with a Photoshop-com-
patible plug-in to facilitate scanning.
Users can preview and crop the scan and
adjust the exposure levels, output reso-
lution, and RGB gamma curves. $1999.
Mirror Technologies, 612/633-4450,
800/654-5294; fax 612/633-3136.
Ovation 814
Big presentations demand big firepower.
This 10.4-inch active-area color LCD
panel is designed for situations where
the panel must be placed more than 10
feet from the projection screen. The
active matrix display can reproduce over
2 million colors, and it comes with a
remote control you can program to
move your presentation forward or back,
or to freeze an image on the screen. An
adapter that decodes NTSC, PAL,
SECAM, and S-VHS video is available as
an option. $6395; video adapter $695.
Proxima Corp., 619/457-5500, 800/
447-7694; fax 619/457-9647.
TurboCards
This line of PDS 68040-based accelera-
tors uses the RAM on the Mac’s moth-
erboard, avoiding the need for addition-
al SI^AMs on the accelerator card. For the
Macintosh llci, 25MHz, 33MHz, and
40MHz versions are available; and
25MHz cards are available for the LC, LC
II, llsi (adapter required), and SE/30. The
33MHz and 40MHz lid models indude
a 128K cache. LC, LC II, SE/30, llci
25MHz $769; Mac llsi with adapter
$839; llci 33MHz $1299; llci 40MHz
$1699. Focus Enhancements, 617/
938-8088, 800/538-8866; fax 617/
938-7741.
SOFTWARE
3D ModelsA/olume 1
Over 50 ready-to-render DXF format
models in 10 categories: bookcases,
chairs, couches, desks, stools, clocks,
glasses, lamps, picture frames, and
tables. $249. Sound/Image, 617/354-
4189; no fax.
Bridge Deluxe with Omar Sharif
You’ll never again have to find a fourth
for bridge — or a second or third for that
matter. Learn the basic rules of bridge or
refine your slams or defensive plays. This
card-playing simulation recognizes the
Blackwood and Stayman bidding con-
ventions, and you can take back or rebid
a hand at any time. The software
indudes an on-disk tutorial, and playing
hints are available when you get stuck in
a tight spot. 2MB min. memory. $59.95.
MacPIay, 714/553-3522, 800/736-
5738; fax 714/252-2820.
ChessMaster 3000
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Software Toolworks, 415/883-3000,
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ClassManager/Plus
Classified ads have their own peculiari-
ties, but this software package helps you
take placement calls, format the ads, and
manage the department. The latest ver-
sion features \AA'SIWYC ad construc-
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for pasting customer information direct-
ly into the ad, a character palette for
inserting graphic characters, and style
sheets. $2995. Baseview Products,
313/662-5800; fax 313/662-5204.
ClipEdit
You're set to go on your newsletter —
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holes where copy should go and no time
to write it. This product consists of 35
articles, ranging from 120 to 500 words
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into a publication. Topics include busi-
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human resources and personnel, health,
and seasons and holidays. $149.95.
Dartnell, 312/561-4000, 800/621-
5463; fax 312/561-3801.
Colorize
Put a little color in your life or at least into
your black-and-white line art with this
paint software. The package features
spedaiized fill tools that combine a stan-
dard paint bucket with a brush to pre-
cisely place color within the boundaries
of an Image. Colorize treats each color as
a separate layer, reducing file sizes and
redraw times, and users can aeate col-
ors using CMYK percentages and save
them In that format for printing; for spot
colors, users can output single-color
plates. 8MB min. memory; requires Sys-
tem 7, 8-bit color. $399. DS Design,
919/319-1770, 800/745-4037; fax
919/460-5983.
Crystal Calihum
Crystal Calibum
From the folks who brought you Tristan
and Eight Ball Deluxe comes another
electronic pinball game stuffed full of
special targets, ramps, lanes, bumpers,
turnovers, and multiball play. Can you
bring accolades to all your knights,
awaken Merlin, get Excalibur, and find
the Holy Grail? 4MB min. memory,
requires 8-bit color. $59.95. StarPlay,
303/339-7016, 800/203-2503; fax
303/330-7553.
Double>XX
If you can write in HyperTalk and use
XCMDs, you can develop stand-alone
applications. To create an application,
you select your resources (XCMDs,
PICTs, and so on) and define the menus,
and the software creates a shell, com-
plete with a HyperTalk interpreter. The
process adds 75K to 150K of additional
resources. Requires HyperCard 2.1.
5149, plus $100 licensing fee per creat-
ed application for commercial distribu-
tion. Heizer Software, 510/943-7667,
800/888-7667; fax 510/943-6882.
Energizer Bunny Screen Saver
As if television ubiquitousness weren't
enough, now you can have Uie Energiz-
er Bunny stomping across your screen
and beating his drum while he prevents
phosphor bum-in. Bunny ventures
through land, sea, and air; users can
select or randomize parading, para-
chuting, gunslinging though the Old
West, and snorkeling with sharks. A
timer option allows Herr Rabbit to
make surprise guest appearances over
your applications, and the package also
includes a collection of Energizer Bunny
desktop wallpaper. 2MB min. mem-
ory; 8-bit color. $29.95. PC Dynamics,
818/888-1741, 800/889-1741; fax
818/889-1014.
form Z 2.3
The real world can be so boring, so why
not create one of your own? The latest
release of this 3-D modeling software
now supports TrueType and PostScript
text; extended vertice and edge-round-
ing tools; shape sweeps along nonplanar
paths; and the generation of parallel
objects from solids, surfaces, and poly-
lines. The program can now also import
EPS, FACT, ICES, STL, RIB, and 3DGF
formats. 4MB min. memory; requires
FPU, Mac II. $1495. auto des sys,
614/488-8838; fax 614/488-0848.
FullBack
Automatic file backup is always handy,
but this control panel will also keep up
to 99 old versions of each file that you
work on — no more scrambling back
through your notes to rebuild the origi-
nal version of a document Optionally,
the software will automatically save
whatever file you're currently working
on at user-specified intervals. $99.
Rochma Technology, 216/573-5854;
fax 216/573-5854.
Itemizer
Whether your capital assets are Fluggle-
man Widgets or Otherness Transtators,
accurately tracking them Is essential to a
healthy business. This software main-
tains an assets database from informa-
tion you enter, prints out bar-code labels
to help you track your stock, and
exchanges information with portable
data-collection terminals to ease in-
put procedures. Requires 12-inch moni-
tor. $695. DataDesIgns, 210/697-0780;
no fax.
Jeopardy
Ask your Macintosh questions it actual-
ly has the answers to, and win fabulous
cash and prizes. This computerized ver-
sion of the television game show fea-
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bit color. $39.99. Gametek, 305/935-
3995; fax 305/932-8651.
Just Dingbats:
Signs and Symbols
The first of six volumes of TrueType pic-
ture fonts, this collection includes 150
images of road signs, medical symbols,
postal symbols, recreation signs, safety
warnings, transportation warnings,
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symbols. $69.95. The Communica-
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Kodak Photo CD
Acquire Module
With version 2.0 of this Adobe Photo-
shop plug-in, you can acquire images
stored in Pro Photo CD Master discs — a
new Kodak format that stores images at
higher resolution (4096 by 6144 pixels)
than the original Photo CD format. You
can select any available Photo CD reso-
lution; crop the image; and adjust bright-
ness, saturation, and color balance
before loading the image into Photo-
shop, making it easier to match RGB
screen images to color output. The mod-
ule provides 21 conversion metrics for
importing the native PhotoYCC color
information into Photoshop, including
PhotoYCC output, gray-scale conver-
sion, video RGB conversion, and nine
monitor setups. Requires Adobe Photo-
shop 2.0. $59.95. Eastman Kodak,
716/724-4000, 800/242-2424; fax
716/724-9624.
Maple V Release 2
College calculus dropouts need not
apply for this symbolic and numeric cal-
culation software. The latest version fea-
tures new mathematical functions, an
improved user interface, enhanced sup-
port for two- and three-dimensional
graphics, and improved printed output.
$795. Waterloo Maple Software,
519/747-2373, 800/267-6583; fax
519/747-5284.
MultiClip Pro 3.0
Software that lets you cut or copy a
series of items and then paste them in
any order. The software can handle
nearly any data type, and the new ver-
sion allows unlimited collections of clip-
boards to be open simultaneously; can
find clipped items by format, text, and
keywords; supports hot keys; and
includes full-featured image and text
editors. Requires System 7. $149. Oldu-
vai Corp., 305/670-1112, 800/548-
5151; fax 305/670-1992.
newFaces Fall '93 FontPak
Putting a new face on your work — a
new typeface, that is. These 1 1 new
fonts include Improv, based on the cred-
its from 1960s TV comedies; East Bloc,
which emulates the Cyrillic alphabet style
of 1920s Soviet propaganda posters;
Mini Pics, an American Sign Language
picture font; Letraset Balmoral, an ele-
gant script face; and two new versions of
the Caslon face. All typefaces are avail-
able separately and ship with both True-
Type and PostScript versions. $109; $19
to $29 per typeface. Image Club Graph-
ics, 403/262-8008, 800/661-9410; fax
403/261-7013.
Nightingale
The next time a three-movement sym-
phony just pops into your head, you
might want to have some MIDI nota-
tion-and-composition software handy.
This package features real or step-time
MIDI recording and playback, note entry
from the Macintosh keyboard, and text
and lyric entry. You can also transpose
and extract individual parts with multi-
measure rests, and easily place dynam-
ics, articulations, accents, and tempo
changes. The software supports auto-
matic note spacing, and it will print out
individual and combined scores. 2MB
min. memory. $495. Temporal Acuity
Products, 206/462-1007; fax 206/
462-1057.
PhotoByte
Getting 1CKX) words for your pictures is
always easier than getting $1000 for
them, but this FileMaker Pro-based
office-management software can make
the financial end of professional pho-
tography easier to manage. PhotoByte
automates the creation of job sheets,
estimates, invoices, and model releases;
tracks the circulation and sales of your
photos; files assignments with pictorial
references; and computes day rates. The
software includes a client and contact
database where you can log calls and
meetings, and from which you can
develop marketing and mailing lists.
Requires FileMaker Pro 2.0. $795. Ver-
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8399; fax 415/331-3131.
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PowerBits Jr.
An Adobe Photoshop plug-in that
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wide by 25 feet long to an HP DesignJet
650C large-format color ink-jet printer.
The plug-in supports serial, Centronics,
LocalTalk, and Ethernet connections and
uses the DesignJet's language, eliminat-
ing the need for a PostScript interpreter.
Requires Adobe Photoshop 2.0. $500.
Colossal Graphics, 415/328-2264; fax
415/328-1513.
Print Juggler
Diving into the Chooser over and over
again to switch printers gets old-fast.
This background application runs invisi-
bly, monitoring user-specified network
printers (even across AppleTalk zones).
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menu-bar item, accessible from any
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menu items, displays their status v/hen
highlighted, and chooses one when you
select it from the menu. Users can con-
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printers, and can create desktop icons for
drag-and-drop printing to specific print-
ers. Requires System 7. $49. Sonic Sys-
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Propagator
Create your very own neural networks in
the comfort of your living room with this
point-and-click development system. An
included manual guides novices through
the creation of a network, while experi-
enced neural networkers can control
network parameters down to learning
rate, number of layers, momentum, ini-
tial weights, and stopping criteria. The
software can also use a validation set to
determine when the network is over-
learning and training should be stopped.
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SCSI Director Professional 3.0
This utility Is about the SCSI, the whole
SCSI, and nothing but the SCSI. Users
can format, partition, protect, and main-
tain SCSI devices, Including removable
media, SCSI-2 units, and most major
CD-ROM formats. The software works
with Apple’s SCSI Manager 4.3, and
offers users the options of multiple SCSI
buses, multiple logical units, asynchro-
nous SCSI I/O, SCSI DMA, and Level 1
software RAID (disk mirroring). $99.
Transoft Corp., 805/565-5200, 800/
949-6463; fax 805/565-5208.
Territory Manager
Sometimes, the only time you have, to
manage contacts and sales leads is a cou-
ple of minutes in a hotel lobby between
cold calls. Territory Manager streamlines
the tasks of record keeping, call man-
agement. and appointment scheduling.
It also provides several check-boxes for
each entry; these let the software ana-
lyze contacts and create sales projec-
tions, indicate which activities are the
most effective, and Identify possible
future leads. 2MB min. memory. $295.
Software Solutions, 812/477-3181; fax
708/752-0220.
Visual Music
Those of you who missed out on the
color and music experiments of the late
sixties can now experience freaky psy-
chedelia or calm pastel washes in time
to your favorite MIDI tunes. This soft-
ware combines a paint program, an ani-
mation module, and a 24-track MIDI
sequencer that can trigger color, form,
and motion effects. Users can load up to
20 PICT files, and manipulate regions or
objects within the files. 4MB min. mem-
ory; requires 8-bit color. $200. Ances-
tors, 206/367-0795; no fax.
CD-ROMS
Calculated Beauty
Explore the vistas of fractal graphics. This
disc contains over 600MB of raw data,
precalculated from the Mandelbrot
equation. Included software interprets
the data and can generate over 6000
Calculated Beauty
square feet of fractal patterns. The pack-
age also includes fractal shareware pro-
grams, QuickTime movies, and a gallery
of fractal art. 4MB min. memory;
requires color. System 7. $44. Rocky
Mountain Digital Peeks. 303/258-3779,
800/266-7367; no fax.
Myst
An adventure game with no inventories
and no time limits? The story begins
when you pick up a battered old book,
begin to read it, and are suddenly trans-
ported to a fantasy world of equal parts
technology and magic. Written by Rand
and Robyn Miller, authors of The Man-
hole, Cosmic Osmo, and Spelunx and
the Caves of Mr. Seudo, this game offers
graphic worlds to explore, puzzles to
solve, and a mystery to unravel. 2.5MB
min. memory; requires 8-bit color.
$59.95. Broderbund Software, 415/
382-4400, 800/521-6263; fax 415/
382-4419.
The New Kid on the Block
In the spirit of computing for young-
sters, this disc is the next installment in
the Living Books series. Jack Prelutsky's
18 poems range in topic from dogs to
homework to siblings. As In the other
Living Books, colorful graphics illus-
trate the text. Clicking on a noun high-
lights the corresponding picture, and
clicking on a verb starts an animation.
Children can explore at their own pace,
or they can have the poems read aloud
to them. 4MB min. memory; requires
8-bit color. $39.95. Broderbund Soft-
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This book by Maria Langer takes a
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Pull up a chair and browse through these
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menus, dialog boxes, and other basic
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Participate in training and missions on
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Toolworks, 415/883-3000, 800/234-
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Mac Liberty
Now you can switch resolutions on the
fly without changing monitor cables by
placing this adapter between the moni-
tor and your Mac. Users set the desired
resolution (up to the maximum support-
ed by the computer) with a dial on the
adapter, and the adapter sends the
appropriate sense code to the Mac. The
adapter supports different sync signals
used by the LC and PowerBook models.
A PC monitor version is also available.
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PowerBook Duo 270c
Active Matrix Notebook Computer
PROS: Offers both 8-bit and 16-bit built-
in color display: new Type II nickel-metal-hydride
battery Increases battery life; 33MHz 68030
CPU, 68882 math coprocessor, and large storage
and RAM (up to 32MB) capacities make it
suitable for processor- and memory-intensive ap-
plications. CONS: Requires a docking sta-
tion to connect to a floppy drive, external hard
drive, external monitor, and so on; lacks a
full-size keyboard. COMPANY: Apple Com-
puter (408/996-1010). SUGGESTED
PRICE: S3099 (240MB hard drive and 4MB of
RAM): $3619 (240MB hard drive, 12MB of
RAM, and Express Modem).
I F YOU’RK WORKING AT HOME OR ON
the road, no one can blame you for
being fussy about what notebook com-
puter you buy. If you’re going to carry
one on the plane, you want it to be light-
weight. If you’ll be staring at it for
hours in hotel rooms or your living room,
you want a colorful display that’s easy on
the eyes. If you’re going to be working
when you could be doing something else,
you want a battery that’s as devoted to
working as you are. You want a Power-
Book Duo 270c.
When the first Duos (210 and 230)
shipped in the fall of 1992, folks marveled
at the technology — attached to a docking
station, it’s a desktop Macintosh; on its
own it’s a light and efficient traveling
companion. The promise was great. The
reality, however, was that a lack of dock-
ing stations and a passive matrix display
proved for less than ringing endorsements
where it counts — at the cash register.
This Duo is different. The new Pow-
erBook Duo 270c meets all the demands
of notebook users: it weighs less than 5
pounds, features a color active matrix dis-
play, and offers between two and four
hours of battery life thanks to a new Ty^e
n nickel-metal-hydride (NiMH) battery.
It’s the first notebook to offer both 8-bit
(256 colors) and 1 6-bit (thousands of col-
ors) color on the built-in display. And its
1 52 -pin PDS (Processor Direct Slot) con-
nector lets you use any one of about a
dozen docking-station options.
Of course, the 270c still faces some
of the limitations inherent in the Duo
design. That is, it has a smaller than full-
size keyboard. You need a docking sta-
tion to connect such things as a floppy
drive, an external monitor, an Ethernet
network, a second hard drive (or to use
your Duo in SCSI Disk Mode), and so on.
But on the road, most of us can get by
with a modem and the LocalTalk port,
which don’t require a docking station. I
found that the Duo 270c’s slim design
more than made up for having to travel
without the safety net of a floppy drive.
However, I was also occasionally frus-
trated when I needed to dig out my dock-
ing station and floppy drive to load a new
program or utility software. Once the
Duo was stocked with software, my
reward was a slim portable companion
that let me squeeze in another 45 minutes
of work after I boarded the commuter
train at night.
Color Options
Only a small percentage of notebook
computer users need color. That doesn’t
mean they don’t demand it. The 270c’s
screen shines brightly in 640-by-480-
pi.xel resolution, 256-color mode — and
more brightly in 16-bit, 640-by-400
mode. If you require 16-bit color to view
images with thousands of colors, you can
change the color options in the Monitors
control panel. Unfortunately, you must
52 February 1 994 MACWORLD
restart your Duo for the change to take
effect, which is a bit of a drag. The other
hitch is that when you change the screen
resolution to 640 by 400 pixels, you basi-
cally cut off the top and bottom .5-inch
of the screen. The result is a look that
resembles a letterboxed movie. As with
viewing letterbo.xed movies, though, it
doesn’t take long for your eyes to adjust.
But for typical use such as word process-
ing or using a spreadsheet, you’ll want to
stick with the 640 by 480 view. After all,
the desktop real estate on the Duo’s 8.4-
inch screen is small enough without giv-
ing up 80 pixels of vertical space.
The color active matrix screen not
only adds to the 270c’s price but also adds
slightly to the 270c’s bulk. This Duo
weighs about .5 pound more than previ-
ous Duos. The color display also makes
the 270c .10 inch taller than the 250, 230,
and the recently discontinued 210. This
small increase in height is trivial unless
you already own an Apple Duo Dock. In
that case, you need to upgrade your Duo
Dock (S69) to accommodate the 270c.
Battery Life and Performance
Apple claims that the Duo 270c’s new
Type II NiMH battery will last between
tw'o and four hours. Running the Duo full
out, widi no power-management features
activated, I found just under two hours to
be a realistic estimate. But for less stren-
uous uses — when I wasn’t taxing the hard
drive or tlie processor and I was using bat-
tery-management features (dimming the
screen, turning down the processor speed,
and so on) — I was able to squeeze close
to four hours of use from the Duo 270c.
One useful new power-management
feature is the capability to set different
configurations for battery and AC power.
VVTien your 270c is running off the power
adapter, the sofnvare recognizes this and
implements the settings you’ve chosen for
Power AAanagement The PowerBook Duo 270c
features a new control panel for better battery man-
agement. The software recognizes whether the Duo
is using AC or battery power and adjusts the settings
automatically. Here the 270c is using the configu-
ration defined for battery operation.
AC power. Your 270c also knows when
it’s running off the battery and adjusts
power settings accordingly.
In addition to new battery technolo-
gy and power-management features, the
270c boasts serious horsepower: a 33MHz
68030 CPU and a 68882 math coproces-
sor. In Macworld Lab testing, the 270c
slightly outperformed .Apple’s other color
PowerBooks — the 180c and 165c (see
“Duo 270c: How Fast Is It?”). But in our
display tests, the 270c was more than
twice as fast as the 1 80c, which uses the
same active matrix screen. The increase
is due to a new custom ASIC that both
increases the speed of 8-bit color perfor-
mance and adds 16-bit color capabilities.
We tested the 270c in both 8-bit and
16-bit color modes. We found no per-
formance difference between the modes
in processor, math, or drive-access tasks.
In our display test, which includes sever-
al tests that measure scrolling speed, 16-
bit mode was 68 seconds slower than 8-
bit mode, which makes sense because it
requires processing twice as many color
bits. Our test unit came stocked with a
240MB hard drive and 12MB of RAM,
which can be expanded to 32MB.
What’s Not to Like?
The Duo 270c has a lot to like, but it’s
not without its shortcomings. If you
require a notebook with a full-size key-
board, you don’t want a Duo. V\^ile I’m
not the most accurate touch typist, my
tjq^ing was worse than usual. And if you’re
used to the PowerBook’s trackball, you’ll
find yourself searching for the much
smaller Duo trackball. And the lack of a
built-in floppy drive is an inconvenience.
The Duo 270c’s small form doesn’t
mean it carries a small price tag. For the
base configuration (240MB hard drive
and 4MB of RAM), expect to pay a little
more than $3000. Add a modem, extra
RAM, and Apple’s Floppy Disk Adapter
and drive, and you’re up to about $3900.
If you opt for a more full-featured dock-
ing station (one that supports large mon-
itors or offers SCSI or Ethernet ports),
you’re up to around $4400. A maxed-out
Duo 270c is a lot of computer, but if
you’re inclined to compare prices with the
Windows world, you can find a color
active matrix 486 notebook for about the
same price or perhaps a little less.
A Dynamic Duo
After living with the Duo 270c for two
weeks. I’ve grown accustomed to its
bright and colorful face and slim and trim
physique. I don’t mind working away
from the office, but I don’t want to carry
a lot of extra weight to do so. The Duo
fits easily into my briefcase. In the real
world of overhead compartments, con-
necting flights, urban transportation, and
crowded kitchen tables, the Duo 270c
makes working on the road an almost
pleasant experience — and that’s saying
something.— DAN muse
Duo 270c: How Fast Is It?
IH Best result in test
Products are arranged in
decreasing order of overali
performance.
CORE PERFORMANCE iNDEX
Times as fast as a Classic (Classic = 1.0).
Use these standard ratings of overall perfor-
mance, based on a core test suite, to compare
systems across classes.
Common Scientific
NOTEBOOK-SYSTEM PERFORMANCE TIMES
Times are in seconds. Shorter bars are better.
Typical business tasks
in Microsoft Excel and
Word that use the
Mac's processor,
drives, and video
display.
We added to the
common tasks several
scientific calculations
that use floating-
point math.
Use these results to compare the performance of systems for different types of real-world
business tasks. The results can be compared with any other Macworld Notebook System
Performance Times.
Processor
Our tests induded
recalculating a spread-
sheet, finding and
replacing a word in a
word processor, and
sorting a database.
Drive-Access
Our tests induded
opening files and
sorting a database
(on disk).
Video-Display
Our tests measured
scrolling speed in
Microsoft Excel and
Microsoft Word.
Floating-Point
Our tests included
recalculations
involving sdentific
functions.
Duo 270c (640 X 480. 8-bit color)*
Duo 270c (640 X 400. 16-bit color)
PowerBook 180c (640 x 480, 8-bit color)
PowerBook 165c (640 x 400. 8-bit color)
• The saeen size On pixels) and the screen's bit depth are given in parentheses after the product names.
MACWORLD February 1994 5 3
Reuieus
NuTek Duet
Mac Work-Alike
PROS: Compatible with many standard pro-
grams. CONS: Incompatible with some
standard programs, most hardware add-ons, and
most System 7 features; slow video display.
COMPANY: NuTek USA Corporation (408/973-
8799). LIST PRICE: $2996.
OMP.VnBIUTY IS THE KEY TO
clone-making. Ask the dozens of
companies that, in the early eighties,
offered alternatives to the IBM PC but
foundered for lack of compatibility. A
decade later, NuTek USA has released a
Macintosh work-alike developed inde-
pendently of Apple. (We call this work-
alike a Mac, although technically it is not.)
Its test, too, will be compatibility.
'Phe Nu'Pek Duet is two computers
in a single tower case: a DOS PC with a
66MI Iz Intel 80486DX2 CPU and tw^o
ISA 16-bit expansion slots; and a Mac
with a 33MHz Motorola 68030, 68882
FPU, two standard NiiRus slots, and a
SCSI port. Each system has its own
1 70MB hard drive (IDE for the PC, SCSI
for the Mac); the video circuitr)^ key-
board, and mouse are shared. The mouse
uses a standard IBM PS/2 connector, and
the keyboard uses the standard AT con-
nector. There is no ADB port for Mac
input devices.
Both computers can run simultane-
ously, but you can’t view both at once in
separate windows; a switch on the case
lets you toggle benveen the two systems.
There is no way to cut and paste data
directly benvecn Mac and Windows pro-
grams, although you can copy files be-
tween them.
MTy two computers in one? NuTek
says it’s for people who mostly use DOS
or Windows but need to use a Mac occa-
sionally. That makes it similar to the
Orange Micro OrangePC board that puts
a 486SX-based PC in your Mac (see
Reviews^ Macworld^ October 1993) and to
Apple’s Quadra 610, DOS Compatible
(see NewSy Maavorldy in this issue).
How It Feels
It was interesting to experiment with the
computer’s interface, which is based on
the Open Software Foundation’s Motif
interfiice popular on Unix workstations.
NuTek used Motif so Apple couldn’t
claim copyright infringement. The result
is a Mac work-alike tliat doesn’t feel much
like a Mac. That’s not in and of itself bad,
since the menus and folders still work
essentially the same way.
But not all programs work correctly
with Motif — pull-down menus don’t
always appear, aldiough if you click where
the menu item should be, the menu does
pull down. We saw this in Adobe Photo-
shop. At other times, the program’s inter-
face appears warped on screen, making
it hard to read. Wc e.xperienced this with
Microsoft Works.
Also, a hybrid of System 6 and Sys-
tem 7, the Duct is out of step with how a
Mac works today. Among the missing fea-
tures are drag-and-drop editing, publish
and subscribe, aliases, and file sharing.
How Fast Is It?
The Duet’s 3 3 MHz 030 gives it about the
same power as a IIvx or Performa 550.
And NuTek’s emulation doesn’t get in
the way of that power — with one notable
exception: very slow video performance
compared with a Mac’s, making the entire
system appear sluggish for work involv-
ing screen redraws. Furthermore, the
NuTek uses minimum-standard Super
VGA video circuitry, so 16-inch and larg-
er monitors have noticeable flicker.
The benchmarks, “How a Duet
Compares,” show the performance of
both the Mac half and the PC half in rela-
tion to similar Macs and PCs. We used
our entry-level test suite, w'hich is appro-
priate for the 030’s capabilities. Our test
configuration was a standard Duet
upgraded to 16MB of RAiVI for the Mac
half and SMB for the PC half, with a 17-
inch color monitor. V\Tiat the bench-
marks don’t show is the extremely long
waits you face w'hen switching between
applications — often 5 to 10 seconds.
How a Duel Compares
CORE PERFORMANCE INDEX
Times as fast as a Classic (Classic = 1.0).
■I Best result in Use these standard ratings of overall perfor-
each test in each mance, based on a core test suite, to compare
category. systems across classes.
Products are ar-
ranged in decreas-
ing order of overall
performance.
Common
Typical business tasks
in Microsoft Excel and
Word that use the
Mac's processor,
drives, and video
display.
Scientific
We added to the
common tasks several
scientific calculations
that use floaUng-point
math.
Windows PC
66MHz 486DX2
NuTek Duet
33MHz 486DX
The NuTek Duet
Compatibility Trials
The Mac part of the Duet uses NuTek’s
own operating system, the NuTek OS,
which was designed for compatibility with
Mac applications but uses none of Apple’s
proprietary code.
To run Mac software, the NuTek
operating system intercepts the system
calls issued by programs and translates
them to a form the Duet system board
and ROM can understand. The danger
with this approach — especially since
NuTek could not use any Apple code or
technology — is that there may be incom-
patibilities with programs that do not
work as the NuTek engineers e.xpected.
NuTek clearly didn’t learn the com-
patibility lesson of a decade ago. This
Mac work-alike runs many standard busi-
ness programs, but there are some glar-
ing omissions, such as Aldus PageMak-
er. Some system extensions worked, but
others caused problems. For example, the
shareware PopChar control panel pre-
vented start-up, while the Mainstay Cap-
ture control panel caused no trouble. And
NuTek warns against using Norton Util-
ities for the Macintosh or sim-
ilar products, since the Duet’s
non-Mac file structure would
confuse them and cause them
to damage data in a misguid-
ed effort to fix “bad” files.
Some software incompat-
ibilities were obvious: the pro-
gram wouldn’t load or the sys-
tem would crash, as happened
with PageMaker and Macin-
tosh PC Exchange. Other
incompatibilities were more
subtle. For e.xample. Fractal
Design Painter 1.2 worked
fine — until we tried to quit,
and then the system froze.
Other cases were erratic, like
Aldus FreeHand 3.1, which
caused a freeze, but only the
first time we used it.
But compatibility goes
beyond being able to run spe-
54 February 1 994 MACWORLD
cific applications. A Mac work-alike
should handle standard SCSI and NuBus
peripherals, for example. Chances are the
Duet won’t. All we could get to work con-
sistently was an external modem and non-
Apple laser printers.
It first appeared that CD-ROM and
SyQuest drives simply wouldn’t mount,
and most drive mounters never even saw
them on the SCSI chain. Sometimes just
having these devices attached to the
SCSI chain prevented the Duet’s Mac
half from starting up. We had to call a
NuTek technician for help. The result
was that the Apple CD SC drive would
not work, but the Texel DM5028 drive
would — if we used the Trantor driver.
Those devices we could get to work, such
as external hard drives, functioned only
in a limited way. For instance, we couldn’t
start up from an external hard drive.
NuTek’s technician solved that problem
by moving some System files to different
folders. For SyQuest drives, only certain
SCSI IDs would work.
The NuTek interface bears only a passing resem-
blance to the Macintosh's.
Compatibility also means supporting
core system sendees, like networking.
Again the Duet fails, not supporting
LocalTalk (except connections to print-
ers), Ethernet, or even System 6 Apple-
Share. (As with external drives, you can
install LocalTalk or Ethernet cards in the
Duet’s PC slots, but that doesn’t help in
Macintosh mode.)
Even some built-in features don’t
work right. Take the Duet’s built-in
Super VGA video circuitry. It supports
8-bit, 16-bit, and 24-bit color depth at
640-by-480-pixel resolution, and you can
change resolutions on the fly (to 800 by
600 at 8 bits or 16 bits, or to 1024 by 768
at 8 bits) from the Duet’s version of the
Finder’s Special menu. However, the
color depth does not work. VMien we
switched from 8-bit to 16- or 24-bit and
restarted, the on-screen display either
stayed at 8-bit or changed to mono-
chrome. Sometimes the colors changed.
Particularly unnerving was that the
NuTek engineer — not just a support
tech — assigned to help us admitted that
NuTek didn’t test compatibility with net-
works and video cards.
And not all incompatibilities are on
the Mac side. The PC half of the Duet at
times started up without loading the
mouse driver. Fortunately it’s easy to load
the mouse driver from DOS. A tougher
problem lies in a flaw in the Duet’s
scheme for copying data between the Mac
halfs hard disk and the PC halfs hard
disk. Mac files copied to the PC may not
appear in the PC directories; similarly,
when deleted, they may remain in the
directories. The problem is in the PC
halPs cache, which is not updated with
the new directory information. NuTek
included a utility to update the cache
manually — an inelegant work-around.
A Few Bright Spots
The Duet uses a PC-style two-button
mouse. When the Mac half is active, the
right mouse button becomes a 400 per-
cent hardware zoom control. (VHien the
PC half is running, the right button does
whatever the active program has it set to
do.) The Duet also has a special 3.5-inch
drive that reads and writes Mac 800K,
Mac 1.4MB, PC 720K, and PC 1.4MB
disks. When running in Mac emulation,
it even ejects the disk for you (something
a standard PC drive can’t do).
The idea of Macintosh clones has
long appealed to Mac customers uncom-
fortable buying from a single vendor.
The existence of compatible Mac clones
would also let third parties fill in niches
that Apple cannot or will not specifi-
cally address.
But the NuTek Duet does little to
fulfill that desire. A PC user who works
with a Mac only occasionally is better off
using the Windows equivalents of Mac
software (see “Working in Two Worlds,”
Macworld^ December 1993). If the Mac
programs you need to use have no Win-
dows equivalents, buy a cheap Mac. The
Quadra 605 and Performa 475 are both
thin enough so you could put one on top
of your PC.
NuTek also sells an 030-based com-
puter called the One that uses the same
system board as the Duet. No review unit
was available, but it is just the Mac part
of the Duet in a traditional desktop case.
It sells for $1169 — and with real 040-
based Macs selling for just a couple
hundred dollars more (with the keyboard
and monitor), there’s absolutely no rea-
son to consider it.
Despite the fimstrations, we enjoyed
e.xperimenting with the Duet because it
is so weird. It makes a great novelty item
for the techno set. But it’s not a comput-
er anyone should consider using for work.
—GALEN GRUMAN AND LAUREN BLACK
WHAT WORKS— AND
WHAT DOESN'T
Macworld Lab tested a range of pop-
ular business software and hardware
add-ons, as well as INITs and System
features. Often they did not work,
resulting in system freezes, crashes, or
other errors.
Compatible Software
• ACI US 4th Dimension 2.2.2
• Adobe Photoshop 2.0 and 2.5
• Adobe Type Manager 2.0 (bundled
with the Duet)
• Aldus Persuasion 2.0
• America Online 2.0.1
• Claris FileMaker Pro 2.0
• ClarisWorks 1 .0
• Deneba Software UltraPaint 1 .05
• Intuit Quicken 3.0
• Microsoft Excel 4.0
• Microsoft PowerPoint 2.0
• Microsoft Word 4.0 and 5.1
• Microsoft Works 2.00b
• QuarkXPress 3.1 and 3.2
• Wordstar WriteNow 3.0
Incompatible and Problematic
Software
• Any disk utility, such as Norton Util-
ities for Macintosh or Central Point
Software’s MacTools
• Adobe Illustrator 5.0
• Aldus PageMaker 4.2 and 5.0 (5.0
would not install)
• Apple Macintosh PC Exchange
• Apple System 6 AppleShare
• Fractal Design Painter 2.0 (would
not install)
• WordPerfect 2.0 and 3.0
• Aldus FreeHand 3.1
• Fractal Design Painter 1 .2
Compatible Hardware
• Hayes 9600B external modem
• Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 4M
Incompatible and Problematic
Hardware
• Any network card, since the Duet
does not support AppleTalk or
AppleShare
• Apple LaserWriter (all models)
• Apple Macintosh Display Card
8«24GC video card
• SuperMac Technology’s Thunder II
video card
• Apple CD-SC external CD-ROM
drive (worked only with the Trantor
driver bundled with the Duet)
• Any SCSI device (high-numbered
SCSI IDs don't always work, so
drives often don't mount)
—LAUREN BLACK
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as your personal contact file.
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processor. You can create a FastLetter for
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TouchBase Pro can reconcile two
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Life on Planet Fractal The planet surface was
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were Imported as a PICT image.
and sometimes sluggish interface. The
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than 20 page-references apiece. (Both
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D’s, as well as those of more capable mod-
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Lighting and Reflection
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mapping — the latter feature wraps the
surrounding scene onto an object. If
Filter Fish The fish was created by wrapping a skin
around several rib shapes created in Adobe Illustra-
tor and imported into StrataVision 3d. The main light
source was filtered for a modeled, underwater look.
The coral was Imported as a PICT image.
you’re willing to spend a day or more ren-
dering, you can take advantage of ray trac-
ing, which produces photo-realistic shad-
ows, reflections, and glass refractions.
The newest version of Infini-D lets you
integrate PICT images into the back-
ground of a rendered scene (a capability
shared by StrataVision 3d).
Where Infini-D drops the ball is in
the lighting department. The program
supports only spot and point lights;
StrataVision 3d also offers ambient lights
and neon effects. But the greater prob-
lem is Infini-D’s lack of intensity controls.
To brighten a scene, you can only change
the color of a light, add more lights
(which increases the rendering time), or
apply the blinding Halogen option to
multiply a light’s brightness by a factor
of five. StrataVision 3d’s variable light
control makes a heck of a lot more sense
and saves time and effort.
In fact, StrataVision 3d is a veritable
warehouse of rendering options. In addi-
tion to all of Infini-D’s capabilities, it also
enables you to filter light sources to cre-
ate cloud and underwater effects (see “Fil-
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diosity option that goes beyond ray
tracing to account for the impact of
reflected light on neighboring objects and
inside translucent objects. As if that
weren’t enough, you can change the focal
length of the camera to create height-
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SmalltalW for Macintosh 2.0
production adjustments using external
Photoshop-compatible filters.
Strata Vision 3d*s rendering functions
are predictably cumbersome. Surface
maps always begin at the current view
instead of at a prescribed point, which
means you have to navigate around and
suffer through the subsequent screen
redraws. Assigning textures requires a lot
of back and forth between two dialog
boxes to achieve any serious detail. (A
simple flag option would solve this prob-
lem.) But all in all, the strength of
Strata Vision 3d’s rendering capabilities
e.xcuses these and other minor problems.
3-D Animation
Both Infmi-D and Strata Vision 3d let you
establish key frames in an animated se-
quence and automatically generate tran-
sitional frames between them. You can
move objects, lights, and camera angles;
morph between objects; and save finished
movies in PICS or QuickTime format.
But while the new Strata Vision 3d
sports a few minor QuickTime enhance-
ments, Infmi-D’s animation capabilities
have been greatly improved in version
2.5.1. The Auto Banking function simu-
lates centrifugal force by progressively
tilting an object as it moves around cor-
ners. A second function automates cam-
era flybys by aligning the center of a cam-
era to the path of motion, great for
tracking a moving object as if the viewer
were in hot pursuit. A third function
smooths out object movement by accel-
erating it at the beginning and deceler-
ating at the end. Forgive the hyperbole,
but these functions really let novices ani-
mate like pros right off the bat.
The 3-D Champ
Infmi-D is easier to learn and use than
StrataVision 3d, but its capabilities are
also more limited. If it weren’t for the
bloated price, Infini-D would be the ideal
entry-level program. It retains only a
slight advantage over StrataVision 3d.
Furthermore, you can save money by
buying Ray Dream Designer for $349. It
lacks animation, but offers good render-
ing and modeling and some unique
advantages. StrataVision 3d, on the other
hand, offers more features, but it’s suffi-
ciently complex that most burgeoning
three-dimensionalists might be better
served by Alias Sketch, which sacrifices
animation for superior modeling capa-
bilities and faster screen redraw at the
same price. Still, if you want modeling,
rendering, and animation in one program,
Infini-D will get you up and running right
away; if you’re willing to make a long-
term commitment, get StrataVision 3d.
— DEKE McClelland
Object-Oriented
Development System
PROS: Fully implements System 7 features with-
out increasing programming complexity; improved
multiplatform support; no run-time application
royalties. CONS: Not well suited for applications
targeted at smaller Macs. COMPANY: Digitalk
(714/513-3000). LIST PRICE: $495.
OST OF THE MAC nsTFERF ACE, PEO-
ple are often surprised to learn,
derives from the pioneering development
of Smalltalk at Xerox Corporation in Palo
Alto, California, 1 5 years ago. Back when
other programmers were entering ab-
struse mnemonics on character-based ter-
minals, Smalltalk programmers were
doing object-oriented programming on
video desktops with multiple windows.
But Smalltalk was large, slow, and
resource-intensive, and instead of eager-
ly adopting the language, commercial
programmers viewed it as a source of cool
object-oriented ideas to copy into tradi-
tional languages.
Digitalk’s original (1985) SmalltalkA^
was an effort to make Smalltalk a com-
mercially useful tool. Digitalk wagered —
successfully — that developers would be
willing to trade some degree of applica-
tion performance for development effi-
ciency. With the average Mac’s speed and
memory now four times or so what they
were back then, SmalltalkW’s perfor-
mance penalty is much diminished. With
version 2.0, Smalltalk becomes even more
viable for commercial projects.
First, the no-royalties run-time sys-
tem now includes realistic exception han-
dling, something Smalltalk developers
need in order to generate shrink-wrapped
commercial programs instead of in-house
custom software. Second, Digitalk has
added object libraries that support Apple’s
Data Access Language, Apple events, and
other System 7 innovations. This is sig-
nificant because much commercial pro-
gramming involves custom front ends for
different databases, a task that’s now pret-
ty straightforward in Smalltalk^. Third,
SmalltalkA^s Browser interface has been
restructured for faster and easier inspec-
tions of classes and methods; you can very
nearly assemble a program entirely by
cutting and pasting information from the
Browser. Finally, Smalltalk/V for the Mac
now conforms more closely with the
Windows version — another key feature if
you’re programming for money.
Updating an object-oriented lan-
guage involves, by definition, an exten-
sion of scope rather than an overhaul,
since the vendor just expands the class
library. In this case, however, Digitalk
also rewrote much of Smalltalk for faster
performance under System 7; as a result,
the language is even more pleasant to use.
Digitalk’s customer support and docu-
mentation continue to set a standard
other vendors should emulate.
If you’re a professional
programmer with an extensive
background in C, Smalltalk^
2.0 would make a worthwhile
educational investment — even
if you plan to use C++ for
applications. That’s because
Smalltalk is exclusively an
object-oriented language and
because Smalltalk^ includes
a superb tutorial. After writ-
ing a dozen or so sample
Smalltalk programs, you’re
actually in a better position to
appreciate the cleverness of
the C++ design than you
would be if you made the C-
to-C++ transition directly.
Digitalk’s run-time system — with a run-
time doner that can also be used to strip
out unused objects, methods, and classes
from the Smalltalk environment in your
finished application — produces fairly
compact programs. Since we first looked
at Digitalk’s SmalltalkA^ a few years ago,
developers using Digitalk’s products have
produced a variety of real commercial
applications, taking advantage of easy
Windows and OS/2 access as well. Now
Digitalk is offering an improved product
at a good price, and it’s the right place to
start thinking in objects.
—CHARLES SEITER
Nothing Small about It Digitalk's Smalltalk/V 2.0 does an
excellent job of insulating programmers from hardware and sys-
tems details, and features the best browsers yet developed for any
object-oriented language.
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Reuleus
Elastic Reality 1 .0
QuickTime Morphing and Warping
PROS: Based on a brilliant, simple concept;
can create professional-caliber results.
CONS: Difficult to learn; inadequate tech
support; sloppy manual; requires 12MB of free
RAM. COMPANY: ASDG (608/273-6585).
LIST PRICE: $349.
ORPIIING, OF COURSE, IS THE
spectacular special effect in which
one image (usually a person) visibly melts
into another (usually a different person
or, say, an animal). Fans of Michael Jack-
son videos. Terminator 2, or “Quantum
Leap” know what Fm talking about. The
first Mac program that could create
QuickTime-movie morphs was Gryphon
Software’s Morph; in it, you click to place
dots on the screen. These dots specify
which points on the first picture (say, the
nostrils) correspond to which points (nos-
trils) on the resulting picture.
Elastic Reality’s ingenious twist: in-
stead of placing points, you teach the pro-
gram what you want morphed by draw-
ing lines on your beginning and ending
images. You draw Bezier curves, exactly
as you would in Aldus FreeHand or
Adobe Illustrator. Assuming that you can,
in fact, master the not-very-obvious skill
of drawing Bezier curves, this scheme is
far faster and more precise than the point-
by-point method. In effect, you’re creat-
ing an infinite number of reference points
for the program instead of a handfiil.
The real coup, however, is a sophis-
ticated layering feature that pennits one
portion of your movie image (a growing
chin, say) to actually cover up another
part of the image (the chin owner’s neck
and collar). Such overlaps would be
impossible in rival program Morph, and
double Elastic Reality’s flexibility.
The results prove the cleverness of
the scheme: with the proper Mac horse-
power, it is indeed possible to create
astonishing, professional morphs with
Elastic Reality. You can morph between
moving images (a yawning cat’s head
becomes your mother-in-law); melt be-
tween still images (Rush Limbaugh’s por-
trait becomes Bill Clinton’s); and create
astounding moving warps (your nose
becomes nvo feet long as you speak). The
version of Elastic Reality that runs on Sil-
icon Graphics workstations is already
being used to create the special effects in
everything from Super Bowl commercials
to “Northern Exposure.”
Unfortunately, ASDG has stacked the
deck against your success. Creating a
morph (having to think in three dimen-
sions, plus time, for two images) is already
a mental task akin to writing wdth both
hands simultaneously. As if this weren’t
complex enough, ASDG has endowed the
Ingredients: 16MB of RAM, one Quadra 800, 18 hours of effort, 13 tech-support calls, two hours of
rendering time, 24-bit color, 160 frames, and two relatives.
program with a needlessly convoluted
interface. The toolbo.x — whose icons bear
little resemblance to their functions — is
modal and tough to get used to. Confus-
ing little windows pop up, seemingly
unbidden, from time to time; the FX roll
— a prominent interface element — does
nothing (it’s designed to accommodate
future features of the program, says a
spokesperson); and important pop-up
menus are hidden away in places no Mac-
intosh user would ever think to look.
The manual needs an overhaul — the
author continually confuses the control
key with the §€ key, and errors abound.
And the amount left out of the manual
would fill another manual; there’s no
tutorial at all for creating moving morphs,
which is probably what you’d buy the
program to do. The instructional video is
terrific, except that it merely duplicates
the tutorials in the manual.
Perhaps most worrisome: the techni-
cal-help department (for this very tech-
nical-help-intensive software) is one man.
This poor fellow serves as the entire
support department for both the Macin-
tosh and Silicon Graphics versions of the
program. Perhaps because of this impres-
sive work load, his tone — when you can
reach him at all — makes it clear that if
he had his wish, you and your phone. call
would just go away.
Alas, learning the program isn’t the
only problem. Elastic Reality requires
serious Mac horsepower, including an
absolute minimum of 12 megs of free
memory. The company notes that you
need more memory for bigger screen
sizes and larger movies — 80MB for a
short feature film, for example. (I tried
using virtual memory, but it was so slow
that just saving my work took half an
hour.) There’s an Undo command, but
it’s grayed out almost all the time. Also,
since creating the finished morph movie
can take hours, the absolutely critical
Preview command is your only chance
to see how your work is progressing.
Unfortunately, when you ask to see a pre-
view of, say, frame 50, the program
instead shows you whatever frame you
happened to be viewing before turning
on Preview. ASDG calls it a design deci-
sion. I call it a bug.
Despite the brilliance of its concept
and the stunning output, learning and
using Elastic Reality is a struggle. The
company president, admitting that ASDG
is “somewhat unfamiliar with the Mac-
intosh marketplace,” vows that in future
versions the program (and its package)
will be transfomied into a polished, pro-
fessional piece of work. Now that will be
an exciting morph to watch.
—DAVID POGUE
64 February 1994 MACWORLD
CSC GhemOffice 2.0
Comprehensive Chemistry Software
PROS: Efficient intermodule integration; links
to Word 5; ChemFinder can replace minicomputer
software. CONS: ChemDraw module less Intui-
tive than Chemintosh. COMPANY: Cambridge
Scientific Computing (617/491-6862). LIST
PRICE: $995; CSC ChemOffice Plus $1595.
MW
fT- SC CHEMOFFICE IS THE MAC EQUIV-
V vt alent of software that seven years ago
cost roughly $200,000 and required an
equally costly minicomputer. I say this
at the outset so that any complaints about
ChemOffice can be put in context — com-
plaining about ChemOffice would be like
quibbling about carpet color in a new
Rolls-Royce you got for $20.
The basic ChemOffice suite features
ChemFinder, a molecular database;
ChemDraw, a structure-drawing pro-
gram; and Chem3D, for creating space-
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structures to data in other Mac programs; you can
associate this structure produced in ChemDraw with
a Microsoft Excel data table using ChemFinder.
filling molecular models. The full-color
ChemOffice Plus version adds molecular
dynamics, energy minimization, and user-
definable templates to ChemDraw. The
Plus version also extends the range of
input/output file types; the standard
ChemOffice suite can exchange files with
Brookliaven, Cambridge crystal, and
MOPAC formats, while Plus can handle
Chem Abstracts files. Molecular Design
MOLFILEs, Biosym and Tripos formats,
and export to Beilstein and SMILES for-
mats. A wide range of input/output for-
mats is serious business in chemistry,
since the cost of data entry is staggering
(perhaps 20 minutes per compound, times
the 200,000 to 300,000 compounds in the
database of a large company). Chem-
Office is thus a fine replacement for a
chemist’s notebook, but ChemOffice Plus
is die correct corporate choice.
Plenty of chemical-drawing, model-
ing, and database programs have been
introduced over the last decade. Cam-
bridge Scientific’s accomplishment is the
superior integration of chemical-drawing
and database information into the rest of
the Mac universe. You can create a struc-
ture in ChemDraw, using the generous
assortment of molecular templates, then
link the structure in ChemFinder to data
in a Microsoft Excel data table or a File-
Maker (or Oracle) database. SoftShell’s
Chemintosh is somewhat easier to use
than ChemDraw, but ChemDraw (and
especially ChemDraw Plus) has all the
structure facilities you’ll ever need.
Once you have established a chemi-
cal database — typically by importing files
and drawing compounds — ^you can search
the database by structures, substructures,
and text fields associated with com-
pounds. For generating reports, publish-
and-subscribe support in ChemOffice lets
you create chemical-drawing windows
within word processing documents; you
can edit a structure in a live ChemDraw
window in a Microsoft Word document,
for example. Structures in ChemFinder
files or ChemDraw windows can be
linked to Chem3D to view wire-frame,
ball-and-stick, space-filling, and cylin-
drical-bonds models — Chem3D lets you
generate QuickTime movies of these
models (usually to watch the models
rotate about different axes). Although
Chem3D Plus includes a variation of the
MM2 molecular dynamics program,
chemists with lots of day-to-day model-
ing chores may prefer to do modeling in
Tripos Associates’ Alchemy III (see
Reviews, Macworld, September 1993),
which has a more convenient modeling
interface. As with ChemDraw, in Chem
3D you can publish modeled structures
to other Mac applications; for describ-
ing chemical work in progress, ChemOf-
fice is the easiest report generator avail-
able for the Mac.
Cambridge Scientific has packed
nearly every chemical function you could
want into ChemOffice, and has aug-
mented the value of the package by care-
fully integrating other Macintosh appli-
cations. It operates with respectable speed
on standard Macs (I recommend a low-
end Quadra), and will give minicomput-
er-based chemical-database packages seri-
ous competition when the PowerPC
Macs arrive. It’s easy to learn, the price
is reasonable for the level of functionali-
ty, and real chemists answer the phone
when you call tech support. ChemOffice
is a winner.— CHARLES seiter
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QuickFlix 1 .0
QuickTime Moviemaking Application
PROS: Easy to use; good selection of basic
effects. CONS: Manual could use more detail;
recording feature didn’t work well with
VideoSpigot card. COMPANY: VideoFusion
(419/891-1090). LIST PRICE: $149.
HAT THE WORLD NEEDS IS
an approachable, affordable
QuickTime moviemaking application. If
you don’t need — or can’t afford — a high-
end program like Adobe Premiere ($695),
you might well find what you’re looking
for in VideoFusion’s new QuickFlix.
QuickFlix offers a set of basic tools
for combining digitized video, anima-
tions, still pictures, sound, and text into
QuickTime movies. Let’s say you want to
make a movie of your company’s recent
junket to Hawaii. You might start out
with a slow-motion shot of your boss run-
ning down the beach; opening credits
roll by while soft Hawaiian music plays
in the background. The picture then dis-
solves into a shot of a meeting; a semi-
transparent chart overlays the sales direc-
tor as she gives her speech, showing
pertinent figures as she talks. In the final
scene, a colorized sunset fades to black
as the narrator summarizes the meeting,
and the words The End zoom into the
frame. You can do all of this (and more)
with QuickFlix — and do it pretty pain-
lessly at that.
QuickFlix borrows some of its inter-
face from the company’s other product,
VideoFusion. But while VideoFusion fo-
cuses on special effects for QuickTime
movies, QuickFlix lets you make entire
movies, which can include colorization,
scene transitions, slow or fast motion,
chroma-key overlays, and titling.
You build your movies in a storyboard
view. You start by dragging a QuickTime
movie clip or a PICT-format graphic into
one of the squares in the storyboard; then
you can drag clips within the storyboard
to reorder scenes. To view or edit a movie
frame-by-frame, you enter the time-line
view, where you can delete frames and
add or delete sound; also, you can include
the sound track of a video clip, or add
your own music, sounds, or narration to
a scene. A player view lets you watch a
clip, a portion of a movie, or an entire
movie; you can also use the player to
select just a section of a clip.
Various menu items let you reverse,
speed up, or slow down a scene; add tran-
sition effects such as fades, wipes, and
zooms; layer one movie clip over anoth-
er or a movie over a still image; colorize
a scene; and apply effects such as nega-
tive, posterize, and mosaic. The pro-
gram’s titling feature is versatile, allow-
ing you to set the text’s font, weight, size,
and color, and add styles such as shadow
or outline. You can make titles scroll hor-
izontally or vertically, and you can even
combine titles with other effects, using
layering to view a scene through a title,
or using other effects to zoom or fade a
title. (Note: The titling feature is cur-
rently incompatible with the Suitcase
extension; turn off Suitcase if you want to
apply titles.) As you make a movie, you
set QuickTime parameters such as frames
per second and the amount and type of
compression.
With QuickFlix, you can combine ex-
isting QuickTime movie clips into a pre-
sentation or record your own clips from
witliin the program if you have a video-
digitizing board. (The recording function
didn’t work well with my VideoSpigot
card, frequently hanging or quitting the
program. The solution suggested by
VideoFusion’s tech-support staff helped
somewhat, but I still experienced inter-
mittent problems while recording.)
QuickFlix is easy to learn, and you can
get right to work by following the tuto-
rials, which include video and still clips
that you use to create a movie. While the
movie you make in the tutorial isn’t like-
ly to win any awards — scenes include a
pie chart overlaying some flamingos and
a cityscape that cross-fades into a tree
trunk — it does introduce you to many of
the program’s features. The QuickFlix
manual is adequate, if a little terse.
Although QuickFlix provides a good
set of special effects, don’t expect the
range of effects found in more sophisti-
cated programs such as VideoFusion or
Premiere. Missing are fancy effects like
pan-zoom-rotate, rotoscope, morph, and
mesh warp. But QuickFlix is considerably
cheaper than those programs and is not
intended to compete with them. If you’ve
used another moviemaking or effects pro-
gram, you might find fault with some of
the QuickFlix effects; when layering clips,
for example, I missed the ability to adjust
the tolerance of the background color,
which allows you to make a background
transparent if it’s not a uniform color.
However, if you’re looking for an inex-
pensive program that gives you access to
moviemaking basics, QuickFlix is the way
to go. It’s a great program for digital-
video beginners, people who want to
quickly create business presentations, or
makers of home movies who can’t afford
a high-end program.— ERF ert fenton
66 February 1 994 MACWORLD
Delrina FaxPro for Macintosh 1 .0
Fax Software
PROS: Fast, efficient universal fax software;
excellent address-book features: good OCR
support. CONS: Slow printing; interface quirks
and minor bugs. COMPANY: Delrina Cor-
poration (408/363-2345). LIST PRICE: $129.
iricif
ELRINA, WHOSE UTNFAXPRO MADE
a splash in the Wndows market, has
now introduced the product to the Mac-
intosh world. The Mac version of FaxPro
shares many of the virtues of its Windows
counterpart, such as a highly flexible
address-book function.
The address book can include indi-
vidual addresses, or fax lists (each of which
can contain a number of addresses). Fax-
Pro can forward your received
faxes to a single recipient or a
group. You can also assemble
a series of fax documents (even
from different apps) and send
them all at once. Or you can
create a fax and broadcast it to
one or more mailing lists.
When you first install Fax-
Pro, the software checks your
modem for compatibility and
then installs several extensions, two desk
accessories, and a control panel. The con-
trol panel, NoChooser, lets you select the
fax driver by holding down a modifier key
(the option key is the default). This saves
on trips to the Chooser. The fax driver
lets you send the fax immediately, defer
sending the fax to a specific time, or just
save a fax file for later processing.
To view and print your fax, you must
launch the FaxPro application. The fax
file itself is an image that can’t be edited,
but FaxPro includes an OCR engine
licensed from Caere (publisher of Omni-
Page) that allows you to save your faxed
documents in several formats.
Despite a number of powerful and
useful features (some, such as its advanced
addressing capability, aren’t available in
other Mac faxing software), the first edi-
tion of FaxPro ships with a few bugs and
interface quirks. For example, you can
print your documents manually, or opt
for the AutoPrint function. But this fea-
ture is activated by a nonmovable win-
dow — while the window is open, you
can’t do anything else on your Mac.
Except for this interface quirk, FaxPro
can do its chores in the background. Also
when you want to print your fax, be pre-
pared to wait a while. A three-page doc-
ument containing simple text took over
an hour to image on an Apple Laser-
Writer Pro 630. Delrina says it’s aware of
the bug and expects to correct it soon.
FaxPro supports PostScript fonts
(with ATM) and TrueType fonts, but like
other fax software, it won’t process EPS
graphics except as bitmapped PICT rep-
resentations. Aside from this limitation,
fax quality is very good in both directions.
Unlike its competition from Global
Village Communication and STF Tech-
nologies, FaxPro makes you manually dis-
able the autoreceive fax mode in FaxPro’s
ModemStatus desk accessory before
opening your communications software
to log on to your favorite BBS or online
service — and you must turn on auto-
receive when quitting those programs.
Other fax software automatically frees die
serial port when you open your com-
munications program and recaptures it
when you quit. At press time, Delrina
announced version 1.5 of FaxPro, which
will include this feature and add support
for Apple’s Communications Toolbox.
For maximum OCR accuracy, a fax
should be sent in Fine resolution mode,
and contain clear, sharp typ^. FaxPro’s
OCR accuracy is decent, but the program
must treat large documents as individual
pages. This can be time-consuming, since
the OCR application has to load every
time a new page is processed.
The manual that comes with FaxPro
is well printed and easy to follow. Tech-
nical support is available by fax or phone,
and responses are prompt and helpful.
FaxPro isn’t fully compatible with
Global Village’s fax modems (according
to the company, version 1.5 will be).
Except for FaxPro’s sophisticated ad-
dress-book features. Global Village’s own
fax software is easier to use, more reliable,
and, in general, superior to FaxPro.
But if you don’t have a Global Village
modem and your present fax software
doesn’t provide satisfactory address-book
features or OCR capability, and you can
forgive some of FaxPro’s shortcomings
until a bug-fix arrives, FaxPro is well
worth considering.— GENE Steinberg
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i Power Tools 2.0
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Avid VideoShop 2.0
QuickTime Video-Editing Program
PROS: Good editing and effects toots; good
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code; audio handling needs improvement;
some bugs. COMPANY: Avid Technology (508/
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★ ★★
VID VIDEOSHOP 2.0 IS THE LAT-
est version of the QuickTime
movie-editing program originally pro-
duced by DiVA Corporation, which was
acquired by Avid Technology in 1993.
The first version of VideoShop was based
on HyperCard, which limited its func-
tionality; version 2.0 is a stand-alone pro-
gram and is much improved. VideoShop
is an easier-to-use alternative to Adobe
Premiere 3.0, which is widely used for
nonlinear, offline editing. Most people
who want to incorporate QuickTime
movies into their multimedia productions
aren’t professional editors and can be
overwhelmed by Premiere’s complexity
and learning curve, not to mention its
price. VideoShop is designed for anyone
who creates QuickTime movies for CD-
ROM projects, for interactive presenta-
tions, or for short \ddeotapes.
Launching \^deoShop takes you to
the VideoShop desktop, which opens with
three windows: Volumes, Canvas, and
Sequencer. Although the Volumes win-
dow resembles the Finder with its famil-
iar file and folder style, only files that can
be worked on from within VideoShop —
such as QuickTime movies, audio files,
and PICT images — are shown. Quick-
Time video clips are represented as over-
size icons, called micons, that show a pre-
view frame of the clip. Selecting the
micon animates the clip and shows you
the clip’s action in thumbnail. Micons are
a terrific feature that greatly eases iden-
tifying video clips.
VideoShop is easy to learn. In the
Volumes window you locate the video and
audio clips that you want to assemble and
drag them to the Sequencer, which has
separate video and audio tracks. You edit
clips in the Sequencer window, which has
two modes. Time View, the main edit-
ing mode, shows the frames in each clip.
In this view you can see every frame of
the video sequence; you can adjust the
time scale so that you view just one frame
out of each full minute of video; or you
can set the scale to something between
those two extremes. You use Time View
to edit video clips and audio tracks and to
apply effects and transitions. Storyboard
View shows one frame of each clip, along
with the clip’s name; you use this mode
to assemble many clips into appro.ximate
running order. I like Stor)^board View
because it lets me organize the clips in
an editing overview before I do individ-
ual frame editing in Time View.
In Time View, the Sequencer win-
dow has a time ruler across the top and a
toolbox at the left side with selection,
magnification, cut, and transition tools.
The Sequencer window displays an un-
limited number of video and audio tracks,
allowing you to work on very complex
composited movies. To edit video, you
drag micons from their folders into the
Sequencer window, usually to Storyboard
View. Clicking on a micon with the mag-
nify tool switches you into Time View,
video-preview area on the right, with the
standard QuickTime movie controller. A
duration bar under the preview area lets
you increase or decrease the length of the
video sequence to be filtered; this method
is much more efficient than programs that
make you leave the filter dialog box to
change the filter’s duration.
After you choose a filter and adjust
the duration, clicking on the Build Effect
button creates the preview and plays it
in the preview area. If you don’t like the
result, you can immediately build anoth-
er effect. VVlien you find the right effect,
clicking on OK applies the filtered video
to your clip. Filtered video is shown in
the Sequencer window’s Time View with
a blue bar above the clip. To remove the
filter, you select the blue bar and choose
Clear from the Edit menu. If you’ve ap-
plied multiple filters to a clip, only the
last filter effect will be deleted. You apply
transitions similarly. You can preview dif-
ferent transition types before applying
them, and you delete transitions the same
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In Sequence The VideoShop desktop shows the Canvas, Clip, Sequencer, and Volumes windows. In the
Sequencer, I'm changing the level of the audio track by adding points to the audio rubber band.
where you can select and trim frames and
lengthen and shorten clip lengths.
VideoShop comes with more than
two dozen filters and 49 types of transi-
tion effects. You can apply filters to one,
two, or three video tracks at a time.
VideoShop can use most Adobe Photo-
shop-compatible plug-in filters. To add
a new filter you simply drag its plug-in
file to the VideoShop Plug-Ins folder.
You apply a filter to a video using the
Apply Filter dialog box. After you select
the video for filtering in Time View, the
Apply Filter dialog shows you a scrollable
list of available filters on the left and a
way you delete filter effects. This non-
destructive editing is a good feature, as it
lets you make creative changes without
laboriously rebuilding video sequences.
VideoShop 2.0 enables you to add
motion along a path. In the Canvas win-
dow, you can resize a video clip, inset it
within another clip, and use the Path Edi-
tor to move it around the screen along a
user-defined path and to resize the clip as
it is moving along the path. You can also
save paths for later use.
To access VideoShop’s new Titling
tool, which lets you insert antialiased
continues
MACWORLD February 1994 75
With MacWrite Pro
you can do all the things you can
do with competing programs, except for
Spending a whole lot of money. Yes, this happens to be a
wordy headline, but then again, this program’s so simple to use, it’s
easy to get carried away. And when you get carried away, you tend to ramble on with complete disrcg
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trs: ‘-'i&is**
Here it is in a nutshell:
for merely half the price
of most other programs,
MacWrite® Pro 1.5 brings
you all the features and
capabilities you need in a word processing
program. (In a smaller nutshell, it’s “value.”)
With text, tool and style palettes, the things
you do most often are just a mouse click away.
Create tables and integrate graphics with nary
a sweat drop on your unfurrowed brow. Once you
get up to speed (which shouldn’t take too long,
given the intuitive nature of this program)
you may want to try the new time-saving table
of contents feature. Or set up multiple columns
of varying widths. Or take advantage of the
features of Apple® System 7 Pro. There’s
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which lets you send
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you’re working on.
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titles, you add a Text track in the Se-
quencer window. You can use any font for
titles, although PostScript and TrueType
fonts w'ork best. You have control over
title style and color; and titles can auto-
matically scroll in, out, or through the
video frame, as wtII as in several direc-
tions. Adding titles is easy, and you
receive instant feedback on your titling
decisions in the Canvas window. You can
have multiple text tracks, each in its own
language; you select which language track
you want to use when you play die com-
pleted movie.
VideoShop has some limitations, a
few annoyances, and some problems
w^ordi noting. VideoShop isn’t an appro-
priate editor for QuickTime users whose
primary output medium is videotape.
VideoShop doesn’t use SMPTE time
code, and it doesn’t create edit decision
lists (EDLs), so you can’t use VideoShop
as an effective offline editor. It also lacks
Premiere’s videotape device control
extensions. The Desktop window doesn’t
show the length of an audio clip, and
VideoShop can’t play a regular System 7
Sound file unless you drag the sound into
the Sequencer window. You control audio
levels by adjusting points in the area
below each audio clip, called rubber
bands, in the Sequencer. This method is
aw^kward and imprecise when you are
w^orking with several audio tracks at one
time. Although title control is good, it
would be nice to be able to control the
kerning between letters in a title.
The program’s Read Me file gives a
long list of problems in several areas of
the program. Most of the problems are
cosmetic bugs — for example, in some
instances the screen doesn’t redraw prop-
erly after an operation — but a few are
serious. It’s to the company’s credit that
it lists these bugs, with workarounds in
most cases, but I can’t help wondering if
the program was released a bit too early.
VideoShop 2.0’s manual is a vast
improvement over the previous version,
w'hich often seemed as though it were
written to confuse rather than inform.
The new' manual comes with a listing of
shortcuts and a quick-reference card, as
w'ell as a separate booklet detailing the fil-
ter and effect transitions.
Hard-core desktop video mavens who
find that VideoShop falls short on the fea-
tures they need, such as the ability to han-
dle time code and create EDLs, should
check out Adobe Premiere. But Video-
Shop shines in its intuitive, easy-to-use
interface. For multimedia producers who
use QuickTime as only one part of their
presentations, Avid VideoShop 2.0 is a
worthy — and less expensive — alternative
to Adobe Premiere.— tom negrino
Expert Pad PI- 7000
Personal Digital Assistant
PROS: Same software as a Newton, better
industrial design; prompt and intelligent customer
support. CONS: Message network not yet
implemented; same short battery life as Newton.
COMPANY: Sharp Electronics Corporation
(800/993-9737). LIST PRICE: $899.
ma'kic'k
HE RELEASE OF THE NEWTON,
after months of noisy publicity,
obscured a few' manufacturing realities.
As a piece of hardware, the Newton is
made by Sharp, not Apple. Apple does the
soft^vare, and Sharp makes the machines.
Sharp’s own variant, the PI-7000 (fol-
lowing a naming convention that match-
es Sharp’s Wizard series of personal orga-
nizers), was in contrast released rather
quietly. This was an eminent demonstra-
tion of good sense, given the unfinished
state of Newton software for most of
1993. The PI-7000 is now widely avail-
Expert Pad PI-7000
able at electronics retailers but is still fair-
ly underpublicized. The PI-7000 now
shipping uses exactly the same software
as Apple’s Newton (see Reviews, Macworld,
December 1993), although Sharp has
plans for possible software differentiation
in the future. There are plans for more
links to other Sharp products, but the real
news will be Sharp’s Japanese-language
character-recognition software and Eng-
lish/Japanese translation software with
speaker output (write in English, hear it
in Japanese).
There are some small but significant
ways in which the Sharp unit differs from
the New'ton. First, Sharp decided to
reserve a distinctly better bit of casework
for itself. The PI-7000 has a door that
covers the wTiting area, that has the most
common points of operational reference
printed on its inside panel, and that folds
away flat behind the PI-7000 when you’re
writing (the door has a double hinge). In
practice I found the door a convenient
place to stick Post-it notes for later trans-
fer to the PI-7000 names database, and
Sharp has considered designing a small
paper notepad that would fit in the door.
The foldaway door seems like a small
point, but it means that the PI-7000
doesn’t need a separate case to protect
its screen — you can put it in a jacket pock-
et with the screen neatly covered. Fur-
thermore, since no one knows how the
touch-sensitive Newton/Sharp screen will
hold up after three or four years of steady
use, it’s only prudent to protect it from
accidental pokes, gouges, or abrasion.
Next, instead of the Newton pen “hol-
ster” on the side of the device, the PI-
7000 has a spring-loaded penholder inside
the door, which should effectively elim-
inate in-transit pen loss.
The unit we tested featured system
software version 1 .04; you get the calen-
dar, name file, notepad, and all the built-
in intelligent scheduling functions, hand-
wTiting recognition, and Extras found in
the Newton. Sharp doesn’t provide a Get-
ting Started card, but the PI-7000 runs
all the third-party software and commu-
nications hardware now appearing on the
market for the Newton. Sharp delivers
software upgrades through service cen-
ters and retailers; if you have the Newton
fax modem (Sharp will be offering its own
fax modem later), you can download the
upgrade from Apple’s toll-free Newton
number (800/639-8669) or from Ameri-
ca Online or CompuSer\'e. Sharp’s sup-
port (with the same number as for Wiz-
ard organizers, 800/526-0264) is prompt
and helpful.
If you already have a Sharp Wizard
in the 9000 series, you can conveniently
transfer data to the PI-7000 via infrared
beam. If you don’t have an organizer but
are thinking of getting a personal digital
assistant, the PI-7000 is worth serious
consideration. It features the advantages
of the Newton in a better industrial
design, at a comparable price. Now if
Sharp will produce some long-life nick-
el-metal-hydride rechargeable batteries
for this unit and get a national messag-
ing board operating for fa.x-modem users,
the PDA revolution can begin.
—CHARLES SEITER
MACWORLD February 1994 7 7
THE NEWWORKPLACE
[ Sharp JX-9460PS 600 dpi Laser Prinler]
'Hey, nowj we loqk^ like a
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Also see
It gives you high-quality 600 dpi
laser printing. With PostScript® &
PCL5 compatibility. It gives you/
■■ /
near typeset-quality text and
/
graphics. An<J even Share's
I
award - winning reprographics.
You can use it with any PC or
MACV In an office of 3 or 300.
You get 6 fast pages per minute.
^ You get faster output from a RISC
processor. And here's what you
also get: a smaller electric bill -it's
got a "sleep mode" energy saver, a
small footprint- just 1.3 sq.ft., even
a small price. All this for under
: J^1,199(MSRP). It's the new Sharp
‘j'i _ I ____
^ JX-9/460PS 600 dpi Laser Printer.
And with it; you hove the power to
make anyplace, your workplace.
1-800-BE-SHARP
Or FastFax 201-529-9113
©1993 Sharp Electronic Corporation. is a
SEE US AT MACWORLD EXPO BOOTH#543
FROM SHARP MINDS
COME SHARP PRODUCTS -
A^STANTS# CALCULATORS
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Apple Computer, Inc •Requires ^pleTalk Interface.
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Reulews
Turing’s World 3.0
Computer-Science Educational Software
PROS: Complete; easy to use; authoritative
set of exercises. CONS: Manual not
sufficient for stand-alone Instructional use.
COMPANY: CSLI Publications (312/568-1550).
LIST PRICE: $19.95.
★★★★
OST, PERHAPS, IN THE FURIOUS
pace of computer development is the
fact that computers in most offices aren’t
used very much in activities dependent on
the results of theoretical computer science.
From word processing to image manipula-
tion, computers tend to be used simply to
represent the paper universe in an easily
erasable form. Even so, the computer as a
logical device presents us with a variety of
primary problems, many unsolved, that
form the basis of a vast area of investigation.
One of the first investigators, working
before electronic computers, was the Eng-
lish mathematician Alan Turing, who pos-
tulated that a simple theoretical device
could read marks on a paper tape and
change them according to a set of internal
rules. He showed that this simple device
could execute any type of search/replace
function on the tape, and that this ability
was equivalent to carrying out computations
of arbitrary complexity. He also showed that
some easily defined functions were not
“Turing computable” (not computable by
any Turing machine). It’s remarkable that
many of the logical limitations of comput-
ing devices were discovered before com-
puters were developed; this exploration was
motivated by the startling findings of Kurt
Godel and other mathematicians in the
1930s on the limitations of logical systems.
An understanding of Turing machines
is part of a computer-science education, and
the publishing project of the Center for the
Study of Language and Information (CSLI)
at Stanford University has produced this
disk and book package as an accompaniment
to undergraduate courses. It includes a clear
description of Turing machines and their
uses in theory development, an assortment
of Mac-simulated Turing machines on disk,
and a library of tapes upon which the ma-
chines operate. The disk and book cover
basic problems and the assembly of fancier
machines that use basic machines as com-
ponents, and culminate in examples of non-
deterministic Turing machines.
The simulated machines are all simple,
you can run them step-by-step to sec exaedy
what’s going on, and it’s all quite easy to fol-
low. If you follow popular-science writing.
Getting It on Tape This simple Turing machine
removes parentheses in math expressions, and is
used as a submachine in a more complex Turing
machine that parses algebraic expressions.
you’ll spot the logical connection between
Turing machines and cellular automata and
the latest hot topic, artificial life.
Given the almost unbelievable bargain
price of this package, I certainly wouldn’t
object to another version that cost $29 but
included 100 pages or so of additional text
material — the package as it stands now is a
wonderful accompaniment to coursework
but, at 120 pages, is a mite thin for those
who simply want to investigate these topics
on their o^^TI. Even so, it lets you investi-
gate some fundamentals in computing even
if you have little computer background and
no programming experience.
—CHARLES SEITER
TrakMate
Input Device
PROS: Convenient trackball placement; adjust-
able height and tracking speed; toll-free tech-
nical support. CONS: Inflexible ADB setup; forgets
custom tracking speed; lacks software.
COMPANY: Key Tronic Corporation (509/928-
8000). LIST PRICE: $149.
RAKMATE IS A TR^VCKBALL INTE-
grated into a wrist pad, an ergonomic
design intended to reduce repetitive stress
injuries (RSI) such as tendinitis and carpal
tunnel sjmdrome. M^le TraLMate’s unique
design may offer some relief from RSI by
locating a trackball right in front of your
keyboard, it’s not for everyone.
The TrakMate matches the Apple Ex-
tended Keyboard in style and size, although
I don’t care for the slick, synthetic feel of
the platinum-colored Lycra covering the
wrist rest. The TraldVIate measures 2.625
inches deep and is as wide as the Apple
Extended Keyboard, but extends beyond
smaller keyboards. You can adjust its height
from 0.75 to 1.125 inches in 0.125-inch
increments using two large thumb wheels.
Like most trackballs and mice, the
TrakMate uses the Apple Desktop Bus
(ADB), so you can plug the device into any
unused ADB porL Since the TrakMate lacks
a port of its own, it must be the last device
in the chain. You can use both the Trak-
Mate and a mouse if you have enough ports,
but the hardwired 3 -foot cord e.xtending
from the right side of the TrakMate may
not be long enough to reach the ADB ports
on the rear of certain Mac setups.
The trackball measures 34 millimeters
in diameter, just slightly larger than the
PowerBook 140’s trackball. Four buttons
surround the trackball. The two large but-
tons above it perform the same function as
the standard mouse button. The smaller
lower-left button performs a click-lock,
a handy feature that eliminates the need
to hold down a button to make multiple
selections or drag items. A green LED
Key Tronic's TrakMate
indicates when click-lock is engaged.
The right-hand button dynamically
changes the resolution of the trackball to
50, 100, 150, 200, or 400 counts per inch
(cpi), like the Mouse Tracking setting of the
Mouse control panel. Just press the button
and the new setting takes effect immedi-
ately, indicated by the corresponding LED.
Too bad the TrakMate reverts to the de-
fault 200 cpi every time you restart.
Fancy features are fine, but comfort is
key for input devices. PowerBook users may
be disappointed because the buttons on the
TrakMate aren’t in the same places as on
the PowerBook. I experimented with many
different control techniques, all of which
feel awkward even after several weeks.
Choosing a pointing device ultimately
comes down to personal preference. If you
are accustomed to a mouse, adjusting to a
trackball can be difficult, no matter what its
design. Conversely, many people wouldn’t
trade their trackballs for a rolling rodent
under any condition. To make the Trak-
Mate more attractive. Key Tronic should
bundle software that reduces repetitive
motions by opening menus without a
I mouse-click, moving the cursor to default
I buttons automatically, and adding keyboard
i shortcuts to dialog boxes. Until then, the
1 TrakMate remains an interesting design
2 that may appeal to a relatively small audi-
ence.— OWEN W. LINZMAYER
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Silver Cloud 1 .2
Network-Management Software
PROS: Can limit Chooser-selectable
devices and zones: can use installer and
updater over a network. CONS: Can easily
circumvent zone and device restriction.
COMPANY: AC Group (510/937-7900).
LIST PRICE: 25-user version $495.
m
ILVKR CLOUD 1.2 IS A MAJOR IM-
* provement over Apple’s Chooser and
is a powerful productivity tool for both
administrators and end users.
A network administrator can customize
Silver Cloud for a specific user or group of
users. Customization options include lim-
iting the number of available devices or
zones and restricting access to certain net-
work sendees such as file senders and print-
ers. Silver Cloud appears as an Apple menu
item and requires the same amount of
memory (2 OK) as the Chooser.
Before installing Silver Cloud the net-
work administrator must determine who
gets what on the network. As the adminis-
trator you can create custom preference files
to limit access to department file servers and
printers. Limiting access makes printer and
sener switching less time-consuming for
the end user. You can also use Silver Cloud
to restrict network zones, giving users more
freedom to choose devices in their zone.
To create custom preference fdes, you
begin by creating a folder in Silver Cloud
(see “Silver Cloud Be-
fore and After”); then
you select the devices or
zones. Silver Cloud in-
cludes a Find hinction so
you can quickly locate
similarly named devices.
Once you locate the
desired printers, servers,
modems, and so on, just
drag each device’s icon
into the folder. Silver Cloud then makes an
alias of each device for future reference. If
you then need to restrict a user’s access to
the rest of the network, simply highlight
those zones or devices and choose Hide
from the Silver Cloud menu. Choosing
Hide only removes the devices from the Sil-
ver Cloud window; choosing Show /Ml puts
them back in the window. If you want to
restrict access to devices, you must lock
them after hiding them.
Network administrators should be
aware that device and zone hiding is not
very secure. End users only need to remove
Silver Cloud from their system and reinstall
the Chooser to regain access to the network
and all netw ork devices. AG Group does not
intend Silver Cloud to be used as a network
security device.
Silver Cloud also comes widi a network
installer and updater, which help network
administrators manage networks that are on
Silver Cloud Before and After When you first
set up preference files for end users, the Silver Cloud
Apple menu item resembles the standard Chooser,
displaying all available network devices (left). When
customization is finished. Silver Cloud brings you a
more concise, less bloated picture of available net-
work peripherals (right).
different floors or in different geographi-
cal locations.
If you have a small network with few
Chooser devices, you probably don’t need
Silver Cloud. However, if you are adminis-
trating a large network and are drowning in
a sea of devices and zones, I definitely rec-
ommend Silver Cloud.— MATT Clark
CryptoMactic 1.0.1
Security Software
PROS: Fast Finder-level encryption and
decryption of files; effective file removal. CONS:
Simplest encryption algorithm not quite hacker-
proof; some interface quirks. COMPANY: Kent
Marsh (713/522-5625). LIST PRICE: $99.
±±±
HE MAC IS SUCH AN EASY COMPUT-
er to operate for most of us, we some-
times forget that we might not want some
of our work to be readily available to oth-
ers. Whether it’s a company’s financial
records, a set of personnel files, or even con-
fidential trade information, it’s essential to
have a quick and easy way to hide those files
from unauthorized eyes.
Kent Marsh’s CryptoMactic brings file
security to the desktop. Like some of the
better-known compression programs,
CryptoMactic puts an icon (a small circle)
on the menu bar. You highlight a file, fold-
er, or disk and select Encr>'pt or Decrjqjt
either from the pull-down menu or via a
keyboard command.
CryptoMactic has five encryption
schemes, from the fast LightningCIlrypt
method to the Triple DES method, w'hich
adds two passw ords or code keys to the Data
Encryption Standard (DES). The Data
Encryption Standard is based on the Amer-
ican National Standards Institute (ANSI)
encryption scheme.
After selecting an encryption scheme,
you enter a passw^ord (or even two pass-
w^ords). Encrj'ption takes from 20 seconds
or so up to several minutes, depending on
how sophisticated an encryption algorithm
you have selected.
You can even save your file in self-
decrypting form, which can add 60K to 70K
to the file size. Using this option, you can
send the file, along with the password, to
people who don’t have CryptoMactic, and
they can then decode it.
CryptoMactic’s Incinerate option lets
you shred a file so it can’t be retrieved. Nor-
mally when you delete a file, only the entry
on the file directory is removed; the data
remains on your hard drive unless new data
overwrites it. This means someone could
retrieve the data with a file-recovery utili-
ty. Incinerate, however, ovenvrites the file
w ith ones and zeros, or with a more com-
ple.\ coding scheme, so that the original
cannot be recovered.
If you forget your password, the Cryp-
toMactic Administrator program allows you
to decode your files via a backdoor method.
You can remove Administrator for added
file protection, but CryptoMactic’s biggest
interface quirk rears its ugly head if you do.
Without Administrator, when you type
your passw'ord incorrectly CryptoMactic
will attempt to decrypt the file based on the
wrong password and will decrypt it incor-
rectly. To access the file, you must re-
encrypt it using the incorrect password
(if you can remember it) and then decode it
with the correct passw^ord. It’s very easy to
lose a file this way.
Another quirk is less troublesome: after
you finish working on a decrypted file, you
must manually encrypt it again to keep it
secure. Cr>q)toMactic has no automatic en-
cryption option.
While the standard LightningCrypt
scheme might provide enough security for
many users, it is far from hacker-proof. I
sent a file encrypted with this algorithm to
two programmers who are not security
experts, and they managed to decode the
file in short order. The more complex DES
formats, however, are harder to reconstruct.
Despite a few shortcomings, Crypto-
Mactic is in most respects easy to use,
relatively speedy, and as far as I could deter-
mine, it doesn’t affect your Mac’s perfor-
mance at all. If you want to effectively pro-
tect sensitive files and safely and securely
delete outdated ones, this product is worth
your consideration.
—GENE STEINBERG
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Macinteriors
Interior Design Software
PROS: Inexpensive: good customer support;
object library; cost-tracking feature. CONS: Poor
documentation; unintuitive features need
more dialog boxes; difficult to get precise mea-
surements. COAAPANY: Microspot
USA (408/253-2CXK)). LIST PRICE: $129.
OU HATE YOUR KITCHEN. YOU’VE
got a home-improvement loan and a
set of plans, but before you start knocking
out walls, you want to know whether you’ll
like that cabinet over the sink, and if your
kitchen table will still fit. Instead of lying
awake worrying, you could try Macinteriors,
an inexpensive program that lets you visu-
alize your design in three dimensions.
Macinteriors offers five t\i'o-dimen-
sional views — a floor plan and four wall
views — in which you do the bulk of your
work. Using the room-drawing tools and
specifying dimensions via dialog boxes, you
lay out walls, windows, and floors. Then
you furnish the room with objects from
libraries (called stationery pads) or use the
drawing tools to create your own.
As you work in two dimensions, the
program creates a 3-D model of your room.
You can easily change your vantage point
and field of vision inside the model to
explore your new interior. Unlike high-end
3-D CAD and modeling programs, Macin-
teriors does not aim for photo-realism — it
does not simulate light sources, for exam-
ple, or import textures.
Macinteriors comes with over 100
editable objects such as bookshelves, bidets,
and Quadras. You can stretch an end table
into a sleeker coffee table, or deform an
executive desk into a truly gargantuan
power statement. Editable colors and pat-
terns let you roughly simulate surfaces such
as wallpaper and flooring. You can create
furnishings in the Design mode and add
them to the library. You can also assign a
dollar value to objects (but not construction
costs), and Macinteriors will track your pro-
jected expenditures.
Macinteriors is basically a useful pro-
gram dragged down by its documentation,
both on screen and in the manual. Work-
ing in three dimensions is not intuitive. If
you’re not careful, a door that appears to be
right where it belongs in plan view might
turn out to be 8 feet off the floor in a wall
view, and no dialog box cautions you. Get-
ting objects correctly placed is not impos-
sible, just unduly cumbersome. It would be
helpful to be able to select an object and
read its dimensions — linear or area — from
either an info box or a label. Instead, you
must option-click on the ends of each com-
ponent line and do the math yourself.
Other features that should be intuitive
in a program targeted for the casual user
aren’t. The tutorial is confusing in many
places, and although the illustrations are
clearly drawn, you have to constantly leaf
through to find them. Useful tools, such as
In My 3-D Room I covered my floor with mats
filled with a custom pattern. Note that you can't
color window frames without filling in the panes.
color editing (not covered in the tutorial),
get perfunctory treatment in the manual.
Fortunately, Microspot’s customer ser-
vice is prompt, patient, and helpful, though
not toll-free; and in spite of the program’s
annoyances, Macinteriors is fun to use once
you catch on.— STEVEN HANKS
MacGrade 1.5.5
Grade-Book Program
PROS: Easy to use; flexible; clear documenta-
tion; money-back guarantee. CONS: Lacks
features found in other programs, such as seating
charts; no network capability. COMPANY:
CalEd Software (408/6225-6667). LIST PRICE:
$85; five-pack $245.
EW TEACHERS ENJOY THE TIME-
consuming and troublesome process of
calculating and recording grades. Mac-
Grade, from CalEd Software, automates the
grading process, reducing the tedium and
the possibility of computational errors.
Getting started with MacGrade is easy.
The manual has clear directions for creat-
ing and customizing a new grade-book file.
A dialog box prompts you to list categories
including subject, period, term, contact
phone number, number of assignment cat-
egories, and number of students. It also
offers choices between weighted or un-
weighted grades. A second dialog box
prompts for assignment category names
(such as homework, classwork, quizzes, and
tests) and the number of assignments in
each category. Yet another dialog box offers
options for customizing grading scales. A
Clone command allows you to create new
grade-book files by copying the setup infor-
mation from previous classes.
A grade book opens to a Summary
page that displays student names, point
totals, letter grades, and the cumulative
grades the students have earned in each
assignment category. At the top of the win-
dow, a control panel (similar to the tool bar
in many Microsoft programs) includes a
pop-up menu for assignment categories;
choosing an assignment category from this
menu (or using a keyboard shortcut) trans-
ports you to a detailed grade-book page for
that category.
You enter grades as you would with a
spreadsheet: click on a cell, type the value,
and press enter or return. But if you’re used
to working with a spreadsheet, the next step
may be less intuitive: clicking on the equal-
sign button in the control panel updates the
students’ cumulative grades. If you forget
this step, the grade totals won’t reflect the
changes in individual grades.
Between the control panel and the
grade-book grid, MacGrade displays class
statistics. Buttons in the control panel
labeled Student Info and Assignment Info
allow you to view additional information
about students or assignments. Particular-
ly useful is the Other Information box.
which allows for comments about each
assignment or student.
You get a variety of options for print-
ing reports, ranging from standard summa-
ry and assignment category grade reports
to printouts of students’ records, parent let-
ters, proficiency reports, and deficiency
reports. Unfortunately, we couldn’t find a
way to print a complete, detailed grade book
except to make separate reports for each
assignment category along with a summary
report. You can produce grade reports for
bulletin board display using confidential
student ID numbers. And you can cus-
tomize letters to parents with personal com-
ments about each student’s progress.
We like MacGrade’s straightforward,
simple user interface and clear documenta-
tion. The program has a few noteworthy
features not found in competing grade-book
programs, but it also lacks some features
those programs offer. In particular, the pro-
gram has no searing charts, dedicated atten-
dance modules, second-language reports,
line charts, or network capabilities. (At press
time, CalEd Software announced that it
would begin shipping an upgrade in mid-
December.) We found that when classes
exceeded 40 students, the program slowed
to a crawl on older, slower Macs. All in all,
MacGrade deserves good marks, but there’s
room for improvement.
—KAY STEVENS AND GEORGE BEEKMAN
MACWORLD February 1 994 8 3
Introducing^ClarisI
business graphics, h
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the job. There’s the cutting and pasting.
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memories due to a masochistic streak, but
to make a
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chart and
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And when those inevitable revisions work
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G R U M A N
AND J I
M H E I D
Macintosh
Photograph by Hans Nelcman
Innovations
he self-contained computer widi the
smiling face turned a lot of heads
when it first appeared 10 years ago,
causing some people to scoff and
others to lust. The Mac contradict-
ed the expectations people had of a
personal computer. Although its
fundamental technologies — both
In a decade of evolution, Macintosh technology
has changed the face
of computing —
from low-cost PCs
to Unix workstations
hardware and software — were based
on research sometimes 30 years old,
the Mac’s use of these technologies
in the service of creating a human-
centered computer was a break-
through. Sure, there were proto-
types of such computers at Xerox’s
Palo Alto Research Center and in
other research labs — and there was
the Mac’s forerunner, Apple’s own
Lisa. But the former never got any-
where near actual users, and the lat-
ter was grossly overpriced and
underpowered.
Foremost among these tech-
nologies was the Mac’s graphical
interface — no sets of arcane com-
mands on dark screens here. Second
was the Mac’s use of a mouse — a
pointing device that was available
for other PCs but seldom used be-
cause few applications demanded it.
Finally, there was the appealing
package that swam against the tide
of personal computer industrial
design — a compact, vertically ori-
ented box with a built-in monitor.
That’s what people saw on the
outside. Inside, the Mac introduced
other innovations not apparent to
INTO THE HfXT DECApf
86 February 1 994 MACWORLD
MACINTOSH INNOVATIONS
most users but significant technological-
ly: the extensive use of read-only memo-
ry (ROM) and the introduction of built-
in, plug-and-play networking.
Some innovations were meant to
change how people worked with comput-
ers. The original Mac keyboard purpose-
ly lacked arrow keys, scrolling keys, and
fanction keys; that way, Apple would
ensure that its customers would use the
mouse — efficient or not In the end, that
Apple-knows-best strategy went a long
way toward making Mac and PC pro-
grams look, feel, and operate differently,
even if it did sometimes add needless
mousing around.
A touch-and-go beginning The
Mac’s differences attracted attention, and
many people went to computer stores
to see this new machine. But Macintosh
sales were miserable. One reason was
price — the Mac’s initial $2495 price was
steep for the target users, although not at
all bad compared with the Big Busi-
ness-oriented $4995 price of a hard-
drive-equipped IBM PC XT, or to the
$5469 price of a comparable PC AT
released half a year later.
The Mac also omitted some impor-
tant components. For example, the first
Macs could not start up fi*om a hard disk
and lacked a fast port to connect to a hard
drive. Apple actually expected users to
connect their hard drives to the modem
port and start the Macs with a floppy.
A more significant reason for the
Mac’s initially miserable sales was that
you couldn’t do much with. it. Without
useful software, the Mac appeared to be
little more than a futuristic Etch A Sketch.
By 1986, there was a one-year inventory
of 5 12Ks warehoused, and Apple had sold
back its warehouse full of 3V^-inch drives
to Sony because it didn’t expect to need
any more. “It looked really bleak,” says
George Crow, a member of the Mac’s
original development team who is now
director of central engineering at Super-
Mac Technology. “But overnight it
turned.” (And Apple was able to get the
drives back from Sony when Mac sales
finally picked up.)
Saving the Mac What ultimately
saved the Mac were three things. First,
Microsoft, Lotus Development, and Soft-
ware Publishing all committed early to
develop business software for the Mac.
Microsoft’s products became the stan-
dards, since they were designed for the
Mac rather than being cosmetically al-
tered ports of PC applications. In addi-
tion, they were exactly the kind of busi-
ness software that users needed to start
justifying enough Mac purchases for users
and developers alike to stick with it Sec-
ond, desktop publishing gave the Mac its
88 February 1994 MACWORLD
raison d’etre, justifying the huge invest-
ment in a Mac and LaserWriter. Third,
the addition of desperately needed mem-
ory and the SCSI bus in 1986 let the Mac
connect reliably to hard drives and other
add-ons that enabled the Mac to be used
for serious work.
No standing still In the decade since
the Mac was introduced, the machine has
changed fundamentally. For example, the
original Mac was designed with all the
hardware that Apple decided people
needed. But the Mac learned from the
PC: the SE and the II featured expansion
slots for any add-on a user might want.
(Ironically, PCs got the idea of slots from
the Apple II.) Similarly, Macs eventually
adopted the multisyncing monitors pop-
ular on PCs, freeing users from propri-
etary video board/monitor combinations.
At the same time, PCs have learned
from the Mac: Microsoft Windows is the
most obvious example, but there are oth-
ers. PCs now often have something akin
to a Processor Direct Slot (called a local
bus), the latest peripheral buses are self-
configuring, and 24-bit video boards are
now a popular add-on (a far cry from the
4-bit standard of just a few years ago).
Other forces independent of the Mac-
PC competition have imposed themselves
on both platforms: CD-ROM technolo-
gy, the expansion of data-communica-
tions technology into voice mail and fax,
notebook technology, and the ever-more-
powerful CPUs that have enabled more
sophisticated types of applications.
It’s been a fascinating evolution, and
it’s by no means over.
The Soul of the Mac
The Mac’s clearest difference is intangi-
ble: how it, feels. The Mac has its own per-
sonality, one derived from a design that
emphasizes not programmers’ needs but
human expectations, through the use of
desktop and folder metaphors.
The user inter&ce is the most visible
part of the Mac’s personality. The Mac
was the first computer to bring the graph-
ical approach to a wide audience. But the
interfece’s contribution is not merely the
seamless use of graphics. The Mac also
pioneered several techniques, including
multitasking, stacked windows, icons,
aliases, and iconic tools. “Apple did excel-
lent work in terms of how they presented
the user interface,” says longtime fan and
rival Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft.
The one flaw with a wholly meta-
phoric system is that it penalizes people
who know exactly what they want to
accomplish. That’s why Microsoft added
a slew of keyboard shortcuts to its appli-
cations. But to the original Mac develop-
ers, a keyboard command was a terrible
thing; they wanted to convert users fully
to the metaphoric approach.
The power of events The meta-
phoric approach is event-driven. The
Mac waits for something to happen, and
then it reacts, a key element to making the
Mac truly intuitive. For example, if the
user moves the mouse so the pointer is
over a menu, the menu drops down. But
if the user moves the pointer into a text
block, the pointer changes to the I-beam
text tool. This approach made the Mac
react to users in a sequence that made
sense for the user.
That was a radical idea in the early
1980s, when computers and software re-
lied heavily on user-toggled modes —
operating states in which the range of
tasks you could perform was constrained.
“The Mac showed that with a different
quality in the user interface, you could
actually open computing to many other
people,” says Philippe Kahn, CEO of
Borland International, a major developer
of PC software.
But for developers in 1984, this was a
tricky concept. They had to change their
programming methods to accommodate
an almost endless set of possible user
interactions. That meant it took longer
to develop Mac applications than expect-
ed — and the Mac in turn came close to
dying for lack of software.
The Mac’s radical approach to the
interface has changed the look and feel of
applications, on all computers. Today,
even DOS programs sport pull-down
menus and dialog boxes. “Excel was a Mac
product, and it set standards for spread-
sheets that changed the whole spread-
sheet category,” says Gordon Eubanks,
CEO of Symantec, which develops pro-
gramming tools for Macs and PCs. “Mac-
Write changed the whole way we looked
at word processing. FileMaker set the
standard for a lot of the graphical data-
bases. The Mac not only developed a par-
adigm for the [operating] environment,
but most applications owe their heritage
to the Mac,” he adds.
Building blocks Another factor in its
operating system design contributed to
the classic Mac personality: its modulari-
ty. ^ple engineers exploited this feature
to the fullest, writing modules that gov-
erned basic interactions.
Some of the modules are internal to
the system. QuickDraw is the best known
of these toolbox components; all pro-
grams use it to handle what they display,
which ensures consistency in both look
and execution and eliminates the need for
developers to write code that handles
screen displays. The Mac has dozens of
such toolbox managers, most stored in
ROM. The concept was hardly revolu-
r
Transforming the Mac Interface
J ust imagine speaking
to your computer — re-
questing "the latest on
our new products" — and
the computer then find-
ing everything, including
new information from a
network you did not know about.
You can read and edit all docu-
ments instantly, even though
they were created on different
computer platforms using soft-
ware you do not have. This ex-
perience should be typical by the
year 2000.
Document-based computing
Today's massive applications,
such as word processors, create
documents that typically can be
read and edited only by that
application. And word processors
cannot edit text embedded in,
say, a business chart.
A document-oriented inter-
face (DOI) would do away with
applications as we now know
them; instead you'd simply open
documents. Whenever you
selected an object — textual, tab-
ular, or graphical — the appropri-
ate tools for manip-
ulating that object
would pop into
view. A text-editing
tool would operate
on any text — from
text in a book to the
legend on a busi-
ness chart to the
display type of an
advertisement. A
page-layout tool
could specialize at
what it does best
and stop trying to
course, if the tools and objects in
all documents were compatible —
a formidable challenge. But we're
already enduring the chaos of
massive, multipurpose, cross-
platform applications. Smaller
DOI tools should make the job far
easier. A DOI future seems cer-
tain, in part, because Apple and
Microsoft support it in recent sys-
tem-software developments,
such as Apple's OpenDoc and
Microsoft's Object Linking and
Embedding (OLE). A form of the
DOI Is already built Into the New-
ton. And a DOI will figure promi-
nently in future Mac and Win-
dows operating systems.
Freedom of speech The
second most critical interface
development between now and
the year 2000 should be speech
recognition and synthesis. Mod-
est speech functions are already
available on the AV Macs; you
can call your computer from an
ordinary voice phone, for exam-
ple, and tell It to read your E-mail.
And people with hand Injuries
can use voice commands to han-
dle routine or repetitive tasks.
But for most of us, why
bother with voice commands?
The visual WYSIWYG interface is
"centered around the idea of
directly affecting objects on
screen," says Kai-Fu Lee, manag-
er of the Interactive media group
in the Apple Advanced Technolo-
gy Group. "If you already see the
object, why talk about It?"
Speech is best for "Indirect
manipulation — for objects not on
the screen or in a menu," says
Lee. "If you have 1000 files, it
APPLE'S KAI-FU LEE: IF YOU ALREADY SEE THE OBJECT, WHY TALK ABOUT IT?
Incorporate a text editor.
This scenario would dramati-
cally alter the way we purchase
software. Today, to wrap text
around a picture, you usually
need a full graphics application.
"In the future we will go to the
software store and say 'I need a
[universal] wraparound text
tool,"' says Donald Norman, an
Apple fellow and author of
Things that Make Us Smart
(Addison-Wesley, 1993).
This would only work, of
takes too long to scroll through
them with a mouse. Instead, you
delegate the action to the com-
puter." This form of speech inter-
face requires not only speech
recognition, but the kind of soft-
ware Intelligence that the New-
ton offers a glimpse of.
What might you ask for from
an intelligent system? Something
like "find everything dealing with
the 1999 budget." Today's soft-
ware can find documents with
keywords (budget, 1999), but
future software should know that
a 1998 document that refers to
"next year's projected earnings"
Is relevant and that a memo
describing a "fussbudget" Is not.
A speech interface and soft-
ware intelligence would make a
computer less a tool and more an
assistant. You could instruct It to
"write a thank-you note to
John," says Lee. "The computer
might ask a couple of questions —
which John? Short or long let-
ter? — and then write the letter."
Right now, this would mean a
form letter. For a more personal
touch, a computer would have to
understand semantic context.
Until that great challenge is
conquered, computers will have
difficulty doing the one thing
people want most from a speech
interface: transcription — conver-
sion of continuous speech to text.
Lee believes that true transcrip-
tion Is more than 20 years off. But
Elton Sherwin, a manager of
IBM's speech-recognition efforts,
predicts usable transcription in
2 to 4 years. Such recognition
would not rely on full semantic
analysis but on a simpler statis-
tical analysis of word context.
The results may not be perfect,
but this method would be faster
than entering everything via a
keyboard.
Mightier than the sword?
Handwriting recognition will also
come to the fore in the next few
years, but it will be a supporting
player in the interface of the near
future. "We will never have per-
fect handwriting recognition,"
says Apple's Norman. "People
can read handwriting reasonably
well [only] when they know what
it is about. Pens do have a place
for form filling, short writing,
drawing, and selection."
Ironically, the Mac's best
known and loved feature — Its
human interface — has changed
little in ten years. It's gotten stale.
Fortunately handwriting, voice
recognition, and a DOI will soon
begin to transform the way we
use the Macintosh. Ultimately,
we'll see computers that work
more like people. That will be a
big step toward fulfilling the
Mac's original promise.— Cary Lu
MACWORLD February 1 994 8 9
Macintosh Milestones: 1983-1994
1983 LISA SHIPS AND IS AN EXPENSIVE DUD
1984 APPLE RELEASES THE MAC, DECLARES WAR ON IBM
♦ Apple introduces
Lisa computer. Later
renames it Macintosh
XL. Discontinues it in
March 1985.
♦ John Sculley, former-
ly president of Pepsi-
Co, Is named Apple's
president and CEO.
♦ IBM announces PCjr,
which ends up a laugh-
ingstock. First crack
appears in IBM's facade
of Invincibility.
♦ IBM has 1 million PC
users.
♦ Microsoft Windows
Is announced.
♦ Apple enters Fortune
500 at number 411.
♦ Microsoft announces
Multiplan, Word, File,
Chart, and Basic for
Mac. Third-party prod-
ucts for Mac start to
appear en masse by
year's end.
♦ IBM ships the PC AT.
♦ Hewlett-Packard La-
serJet is released.
♦ Macintosh 512K Is
Introduced In Septem-
ber, solving Mac's mem-
ory defidt
♦ Philips announces
first CD-ROM players
for PC makers (under
$ 1000 ).
Art credits (left to right): Apple Computer. Rob Dudley. Robert Holmgren. Apple Computer, Apple Computer. Rob Dudley, Apple Computer. Reuters/ Bettman. Background image (left side) courtesy of
tionary — programmers have long kno\vn
the benefits of standard code libraries —
but applying it to the operating system
and user interface took the concept to
a new level.
Another payoff of the Mac OS’s
modularity is the ability to add function-
ality without rewriting the entire operat-
ing system. That’s basically what exten-
sions like QuickTime and Data Access
Language are. A related benefit is that
functions can be given to just those who
need them, without burdening every
Macintosh owner.
But the modular design can also lead
to confusion: you may lack an operating-
system component, but not realize its
absence until you need it — for example,
do you know whether you have the
QuickTime extension loaded?
Interface evolution The Mac inter-
face in many respects has changed little —
it still has the same basic look and feel.
But that similarity is misleading, argues
Joy Mountford, director of interface
development at Apple’s Advanced Tech-
nology Group. “At the end of 1986, there
was no HyperCard, no video, no sound,
and [the Mac] was black-and-white.
MTien I came to Apple [that year], people
asked ‘Why would you want a bigger
screen?’” she says. No longer. Other
changes include the use of multitasking
(through the MultiFinder) and the use of
hierarchical menus.
Apple e.xpects improvements in its
Chooser interface in the near term: “The
Chooser is one of the interfaces that
needs the most evolution,” Mountford
says. And over the long term: “I don’t
think a single metaphor works for all
tasks. The machine should act differently
for different people,” she says, so the Mac
interface should be customizable.
Many Mac developers think that the
Mac’s interface is long overdue for a
makeover. Some, like SuperMac’s direc-
tor of strategic relations, Tom Reilly,
argue that there is now a strong reason for
Apple to change it: the “frightening” sim-
ilarity to the Mac’s interface of the forth-
coming Windows 4.0. But don’t expect
Apple to make merely cosmetic changes
in reaction to Windows 4.0. “There is
simply less value in differentiating the
user interface,” says Chris Espinosa, a
member of the original Mac’s interface
team who now directs strategy for sys-
tem-development tools at the AppleSoft
Division. Ease of use is not as critical a
selling point now as it was in 1984, he
says, since all computer interfaces have
greatly improved.
Carving the soul in stone Perhaps
the most important hardware innovation
was e.xtcnsive use of ROM. By casting the
Mac’s user-interface elements in silicon
and then preaching their benefits to
developers, Apple ensured that the Mac
would operate more consistently across
programs than other computers.
Developers who used Apple’s code in
ROM could use all of the Mac’s RAiVI for
their applications’ core features. Devel-
opers who bucked Apple’s standards had
to pay the price of using that precious
RAjM for nonessential code. “It put a
pressure not to make all applications gra-
tuitously different,” says Bill Atkinson, a
member of the original Mac development
team whose credits include MacPaint and
HyperCard; he now is a principal at Gen-
eral Magic, which is developing “intelli-
gent” personal assistants.
The advantages of ROM — control
and consistency — let the Macintosh lever-
age its taxed resources to get die most out
of them. By contrast, PCs put only the
rudimentary standards in ROM (which
they call a BIOS for Basic Input/Output
System), which meant developers had to
create their own approaches, resulting in
the confusing mix of methods PC users
deal with daily.
Another hardware innovation was the
use of application-specific integrated cir-
cuits (ASICs), which let Apple combine
several capabilities onto a single chip and
thus reduce manufacturing costs, s)^stem-
board size, and power consumption. (At
one point, Apple suggested leaving the
Mac on as a night-light because it used so
little power!)
The End of the Monolithic AAac
The first Macs were designed to be all
the computer a user would need, so each
model through the Ilfx was designed
practically from scratch. The develop-
ment team’s original philosophy was that
the Mac design should work for all users.
“We had the vision that you shouldn’t
have to add to the Mac to make it useful,”
says SuperMac’s Crow. But there was also
an emotional undercurrent to that phi-
losophy: “A lot of the early stuff came
from a reaction to how out of control the
original Apple II architecture was,” says
Apple’s Espinosa. That led to much-
criticized decisions such as not allowing
memory upgrades or a hard-drive port.
“The lack of SCSI was simply a mis-
take,” Crow says. So was the lack of mem-
90 February 1 994 MACWORLD
1985 DESKTOP PUBLISHING IS BORN
1986 MACINTOSH BECOMES A FINANCIAL SUCCESS
♦ Windows finally
ships, three years after
being announced.
♦ Sony introduces
1.4MB floppies.
♦ Microsoft ships Excel
for Mac
♦ Apple Introduces
LaserWriter printer and
AppleTalk Personal
Network.
♦ AppleLink goes into
service.
♦ Manhattan Graphics
ships ReadySetGo, first
DTP program for Mac.
Aldus releases Page-
Maker, which trans-
forms publishing.
♦ NEC releases first
muitisyncing monitor.
♦ 3Com announces
Ethernet server for
Macs.
♦ DOS portables under
12 pounds with video-
out start to appear.
♦ Macintosh Plus is
introduced; SCSI is
introduced.
♦ Microsoft ships Excel
for Windows.
♦ Apple Introduces
KanJITalk version of
Macintosh Operating
System.
♦ Compaq ships first
386-based PC, ending
IBM's role as stan-
dards-setter.
♦ Steve Jobs founds
Next Inc
♦ Attain releases
FileMaker.
♦ Aldus, Microsoft,
and others announce
TIFF standard.
♦ Bill Gates predicts
new type of application
called multimedia.
Apple Computer.
r
Mac on the Go
o
o
T he clamor in the
Mac community
for a notebook
can't be overstat-
ed. In 1984, you
could get a DOS
notebook: the Radio Shack
Model 100 cost only $799, but its
few lines of text were hardly
Hoping to lay to rest the specter
of the Mac Portable fiasco two
years earlier, Apple delivered
lightweight computers with built-
in trackballs, wrist rests offering
ergonomic advantages, and back-
lit screens capable of displaying
a graphical interface. And the
PowerBooks retained the sophis-
ticated power management that
the Portable had introduced.
"Nobody talked about ergo-
nomics before in notebooks,"
says Bruce Gee, product manager
for the first PowerBooks. Equally
important for mobile computing
but less heralded was AppleTalk
Remote Access, which let roving
computers plug into a Mac net-
work from anywhere in the world
with decent phone lines. PC ven-
dors are still trying to implement
something similar that works
across the array of PC networks.
on PC notebooks. IBM released
Its ThinkPad notebook In 1993
with a radical pointer device that
wowed users so much that it
knocked the PowerBook out of
the number one spot In sales.
And the notebook makers
kept Innovating. They produced
color displays, subnotebooks, and
docking stations (but without the
file-saving precautions in Apple's
DuoDock) as much as two years
before the Mac equivalents.
Some notebooks had floppy
drives that popped out to make
room for an extra battery. Others
converted to pen computers or
had replaceable screens. Almost
all had fast 486 CPUs.
Meanwhile, Apple fixed a
few of the obvious omissions, like
video ports and lack of color dis-
plays, but ignored others, like
user-upgradable RAM. The once-
A DECADE'S DIFFERENCE: TODAY'S POWERBOOK 165 AND THE RADIO SHACK MODEL 100 FROM 1984
appropriate for more than the
most basic text editing. By the
end of 1989, true notebooks —
with large screens and hard
drives — were a reality for PC
users. Still no Mac units.
In October 1991, Apple ful-
filled the dreams of many users
by introducing the PowerBooks.
The trendsetting PowerBooks
had a major effect — on PC note-
book makers. Intel soon intro-
duced its 386SL and later 486SL
CPUs, which incorporated power
management. Vendors added ad-
ditional power management. Tiny,
built-in trackballs — In all sorts of
places — sprouted like mushrooms
Innovative PowerBooks now look
like many other notebooks.
When Motorola delivers the
PowerPC 603 CPU, Apple should
have a fast, low-power CPU that
makes PowerBooks at least match
486 notebooks in performance.
As for other innovations, Apple is
keeping quiet.— Galen Gruman
MACWORLD February 1 994 9 1
Macintosh Milestones: 1983-1994 (continued)
1987 MAC EXPANDABILITY IS BORN
1988 MAC ARTISTRY COMES OF ACE
♦ Radius ships first
Full Page Display.
♦ Commodore and
Atari enter PC clone
market, leaving Apple
the only major holdout.
♦ Forethought ships
PowerPoint
♦ HyperCard and Mul-
tlHnder are Introduced. ♦ First active matrix
technology LCD panels
appear.
♦ Aldus releases Page-
Maker for Windows.
♦ Macintosh II Intro-
duced: first use of 020
and expansion slots.
♦ Adobe ships Illus-
trator 88; Aldus releas-
es FreeHand. Programs
transform computer
Illustration.
♦ NEC Ultraiite is first
subnotebook (4.4 lbs.);
includes pen and hand-
writing recognition.
♦ Novell ships Net-
Ware for Mac
♦ Multisync monitors
become common on
PCs.
e ISDNdemoed.
♦ Apple files suit
against Microsoft and
Hewlett-Packard to pro-
tect its Macintosh in-
terface look and feel. It
loses In August 1993.
♦ Apple reports first
bllllon-dollar quarter In ♦ Kinetics ships Fast-
Its history. Path 4 LocalTalk-Ether-
net gateway; first Mac
"enterprise" connection.
Art aedits (left to right): Luis Delgado, Apple Computer, Rob Dudley, NavaSwan/FPC, Apple Computer, Rob Dudley, Will Mosgrove/ Apple Computer, Luis Delgado. Backgrourid image (right side) Bill
ory expansion. “The engineers fought
really hard” to keep the seven-pin con-
nector in the 128K Mac that allowed
memory^ upgrades to 512K, recalls Doug
Gilbert, a cofounder of Levco, which was
one of the first companies to sell such
upgrades over Apple’s objections. But the
prevailing view — made into dogma by
Steve Jobs — was that the original Mac
should be an all-you-need appliance.
Opening the AAac That dogma is all
but gone at Apple today. Apple now sells
several types of Macs — with different
mixes of hardware and System compo-
nents — designed for different types of
users. The first crack in the monolithic
view was the 1987 introduction of the
Mac II — the first open Mac — and the SE.
Apple was both sanctioning expansion
and recognizing different types of cus-
tomers (corporate versus home users).
Apple cemented this change in 1990 with
the introduction of the LC and the Clas-
sic. “We don’t have a one-size-fits-all
approach any more,” says Brodie Keast,
Apple’s director of product marketing.
V\^at Apple eventually learned to do,
says Espinosa, was offer “choice with sim-
plicity.” He cites the Mac II’s use of Nu-
Bus, which required no user configuration
of jumpers and switches as PC expansion
buses did. The first Macs offered no
choice; PCs offered too much choice.
Neither approach was correct, he says.
Quickening the pace of change
Mthough Apple had developed different
models for different markets, the pace of
technological change remained slow. For
example, Macs like the 1989 I Id had
incredible life spans: three years — com-
pared with the general PC world, where
change was taken for granted.
But in 1993, Apple adopted the fast
pace of the PC world. In that year alone
Apple introduced seven 040-based mod-
els offering different levels of perfor-
mance. Finally, Mac owners could get
incremental improvements in speed
rather than wait until the next leap in per-
formance, as had been true when, say, the
II and the Ilci came out. Now, Macs are
competitive with PCs in terms of both
performance and price.
For Apple to do that, it had to change
its product-design approach. Gone was
the handcrafted approach that Apple
cofounder Steve Jobs insisted on in the
Mac’s early days, when even the internal
components that only the rare technician
would ever see were designed to look
good. In 1992 Apple began systematical-
ly reusing one basic design — not just
components — for many models. For
example, the Centris 650, Quadra 800,
and Quadra 650 share the same basic
design; likewise, the LC III, LC 520, Per-
forma 475, Performa 550, and Quadra
605 spring from one design.
A positive result for Apple is that this
approach “makes you think about more
than one generation of the product,” says
Steve Manser, Apple’s director of modu-
lar Macintosh products. That reduces
long-term costs and allows long-range
planning to accommodate technologies
still under development.
Apple also started relying on partners
for design and manufacturing: Sony for
the PowerBook 100, SiiperMac for the
MiniDock, Sharp for the Newton,
Insignia Solutions for the Quadra 610’s
PC coprocessor board software, and
Logitech for the PowerBook’s built-in
trackball.
Losing the performance edge The
demands of graphical processing — calcu-
lating each of the 196,608 bits on the
screen, drawing proportional fonts on the
fly, and the like — were more than any
popular computer in the early 1980s was
designed to handle. In that light, Apple’s
adoption of the Motorola 68000 (2PU
may seem today to have been risky, given
the predominance of Intel CPUs in
PCs. But in the early 1980s, the 68000
was a more advanced CPU than Intel’s
8088 or 8086, and developers say it was
easier to program for. Apple engineers
also made sure the Mac used the CPU in
ways to avoid bottlenecks or slowdowns.
For example, the sound rate was set to
match the video display rate, so the CPU
could process sound in the time between
screen redraws.
But Macintosh performance soon fell
behind that of PCs, for three reasons. The
first is that Intel quickly caught up with
Motorola. The second is that PC makers
quickly took advantage of the improve-
ments. For example, Motorola’s 68020
and Intel’s 80286 were both announced
at about the same time, but the first
286-based PCs (IBM’s PC AT) predated
the first 020-based Mac (the Mac II) by
nearly three years. Since then, it has been
no contest. V\flien 030s were state-of-the-
art in Macs in 1989, PCs were starting to
use the much more powerful 486. Even
with Apple’s fine-tuned engineering,
Macs simply lacked the power of a PC.
The third reason Mac performance suf-
fered is that “System 7 overloaded the
proces.sor,” says SuperMac’s Crow. Any-
92 February 1 994 MACWORLD
1989 APPLE COUNTS ITS MONEY
1990 WINDOWS MEETS THE MAC CHALLENGE
Macintosh Portable and
♦ Adobe agrees to
share PostScript hint-
ing secrets.
♦ Apple announces
Apple SuperDrive.
♦ Microsoft Windows
sales match Mac sales.
Macintosh llcl.
♦ First 486-based PCs
and real PC notebooks
ship.
♦ Apple Introduces 32-
blt QuickDraw.
♦ Adobe announces
Adobe Type Manager.
Gates courtesy Microsoft, John Sculley courtesy Tom Zimberofi/ Apple Computer.
♦ Microsoft Windows
3.0 Is released: first
challenge to Mac qual-
ity standard.
♦ Adobe Systems re-
leases Photoshop.
♦ TrueType Is released.
♦ Apple extends war-
ranty for U.S. hardware
products to one year.
♦ Radius introduces
Pivot monitor.
♦ Michael Spindler
becomes president of
Apple. He becomes CEO
three years later, replac-
ing John Sculley.
♦ Apple roils out Mac-
intosh Classic and Mac-
intosh LC
one who has used System 6 knows that
moving to System 7 (released in 1991)
means buying more RAM and seeing less
speed. Only recently did Apple switch
to a CPU — the 040 — that could handle
System 7.
A computer’s overall performance
is more than just its CPU’s raw speed,
and Apple argues that, from the holistic
view, Macintosh performance has been
competitive all along. Examples include
“the high performance for graphics, the
built-in Ethernet for most business Macs,
and the high performance of mass stor-
age, such as the double-speed CD-ROM
drives,” says Apple’s Keast. But that argu-
ment has been hard to make to perfor-
mance-oriented buyers who equate speed
with productivity.
The Publishing Revolution
Many key contributions in the Macintosh
world came from independent develop-
ers. And desktop publishing, more than
any other technology, has defined the
Mac’s reputation and many of its capabil-
ities today.
The typographic edge A key compo-
nent of publishing is typography, and
people with graphic art experience felt
their skin tingle the first time they saw
menus named Font, Style, and Size. Not
only did the Mac provide typographic
variety, its screen rendered those fonts
much as they would appear when print-
ed— WYSIWYG was born. All but the
most expensive dedicated typesetting sys-
tems available when the Mac first came
out lacked this degree of interactivity and
screen-to-paper fidelity. What made this
possible was the Mac’s use of a bitmapped
graphics display and the QuickDraw li-
brary of graphics routines that did the
graphical processing.
The Mac may have been typographi-
cally aware from day one, but nearly two
years elapsed before the key pieces of the
publishing puzzle fell into place. One im-
portant piece came in 1985, when Apple
shipped its LaserWriter printer. Built
around a new print mechanism designed
by Canon, and driven by a new printing
protocol from Adobe called PostScript,
the LaserWriter was the first relatively
inexpensive ($6995) laser printer to pro-
vide a wide variety of type styles and the
ability to print a full page of graphics at
300 dots per inch.
Non-PostScript devices (including
the Hewlett-Packard LaserJet and the
Mac itself) used fixed-size, or bitmapped,
fonts, which required a separate, memo-
ry-consuming description for each de-
sired size. One breakthrough that accom-
panied PostScript was the outline font —
a mathematical description that a print-
er could use to produce text in any
size and orientation. Another break-
through was the development of tech-
niques — called hints — that let a relatively
low-resolution device such as a laser
printer accurately render serifs, stems,
and other character components at any
type size or orientation.
But there was a problem: PostScript
needed far more memory than the 128K
and 512K Macs provided. According to
John Wamock, cofounder of Adobe Sys-
tems and cocreator of PostScript, “Jobs
said, ‘What if we put more memory in
the printer and put a computer in the
printer and put [PostScript] into ROM?’
That scared the hell out of us, but we pur-
sued it.” When it shipped, the Laser-
Writer contained 1.5MB of RAM and
512K of ROM containing PostScript, all
driven by a 68000-based computer.
As it turned out, tliis approach had so
many strong points, including less pro-
cessing overhead in the host computer
and much easier networking, that the vast
majority of today’s PostScript printers
still work exactly the same way.
Because PostScript licenses from
Adobe were expensive, PostScript clones
started to appear in 1989. At the time,
they usually fell short in terms of com-
patibihty, performance, or both; but their
existence was evidence of the smoldering
resentment many companies — including
Apple, whose printing fortunes were tied
to PostScript — had against Adobe.
Apple was also developing new output
devices that would be driven by Quick-
Draw instead of PostScript, including its
first (and infamous) fax modem as well as
the LaserWriter IISC laser printer. Be-
cause the Mac’s system software still
relied on fixed-size fonts, these add-ons
lacked PostScript’s any-size-you-want
flexibility. It became obvious that Quick-
Draw needed outline fonts of its own, and
since Adobe kept its Type 1 PostScript
technology a secret, Apple decided to
look elsewhere.
The result was TrueType, which
Microsoft and Apple codeveloped and
released in early 1990. On Windows,
TrueType has become the standard font
technology, but on the Mac it has been
less successful, largely because PostScript
printers are so well entrenched. However,
the emergence of TrueType did force
MACWORLD February 1 994 9 3
Macintosh Milestones: 1983-1994 (continued)
1991 SYSTEM 7 CHARMS, BEFUDDLES USERS
♦ Major push into
consumer markets by
Apple* Compaq, others.
♦ Three years after
Apple's Portable mis-
step, the PowerBook be-
comes best-selling note-
book. In 1993, IBM's
ThinkPad pushes Power-
Book to number two.
♦ Apple and IBM sign
cooperation agreement
leading to adoption of
IBM's PowerPC CPU
and joint efforts Power-
Open, Tallgent and
Kaielda.
dors. Including Apple,
commit to supporting It
eventually.
♦ Apple introduces
Duos and Performas.
♦ Apple ships Apple-
Talk Remote Access.
♦ Apple introduces
System 7.
the
♦ Apple announces
QuickTime.
♦ Microsoft Windows
3.1 Is released.
♦ Apple ships
StyleWriter.
♦ Quadras and Power-
Books are Introduced.
1992 YEAR OF THE POWERBOOK
Art credits (left to right): Rob Dudley, Michael Jay/ Apple Computer, Apple Computer, John CreenLeigh/ Apple Computer, Jonathan Levine, Frank Pryor/ Apple Computer, Doonesbury © 1993 C.B. Trudeau/
Adobe to publish the Type 1 font specifi-
cations, which resulted in lower prices for
Type 1 fonts. And from the what-goes-
around-comes-around department, Apple’s
QuickDraw/GX, due for release in 1994,
will provide an open font architecture in
which Type 1 PostScript fonts will be
treated as equals with TrueType fonts
instead of being relegated to the Ex-
tensions folder.
Publishing for the masses This
progress in output and font technologies
was driven largely by the popularity
of publishing programs, particularly the
first viable one, Aldus PageMaker,
released in late 1985.
The premiere edition of Aldus’s
newsletter. The Aldus File,, illustrates the
state of desktop publishing in early 1986.
The fonts are Helvetica and Times: Page-
Maker 1.0 supported only the 13 fonts
built into the original LaserWriter. Char-
acter spacing is crude: PageMaker 1.0
lacked the control expected in profession-
al typesetting. The newsletter is only 8
pages long: PageMaker 1.0 was limited to
a maximum of 16 pages. And the scanned
picture accompanying Aldus president
Paul Brainerd’s commentary was coarse.
This crudeness also illustrated the
state of the Mac’s hardware and system
software. The 5 12KMac couldn’t reliably
connect to a hard disk, so PageMaker 1 .0
was designed to run on a 5 12K Mac with
nvo floppy drives; the PageMaker manu-
al showed how to configure two floppies
to have room to create a publication.
No scanners were available that could
capture levels of gray. A two-floppy Mac
couldn’t have stored the images any^vay,
much less displayed their gray levels on
the screen. The desktop publishing world
was in its infancy.
Over the years, PageMaker and its
main rival, QuarkXPress, have made
straightforward the type of publication
design that were nigh impossible with tra-
ditional tools: gradient fills, nonrectangu-
lar text wTap, and font alteration. Equally
significant, desktop publishing and laser
printers let people from all walks of life
and degrees of talent produce their own
publications.
Bringing pictures to the desktop In
desktop publishing’s early days, pho-
tographs were second-class citizens. Early
scanners could capture only 16 gray lev-
els. Software vendors had yet to stan-
dardize on a file format for scanned
images; Aldus and Microsoft didn’t devel-
op the TIFF standard until late 1986. So
most pioneering publishers who bothered
with scanners used them only for creat-
ing for-position-only images, which
showed a professional printer where to
strip in a photographic halftone.
In 1987, the Mac II changed all this.
The Mac II made scanners far more viable
by making it possible to view gray-scale
images without the detail-destroying
dithering patterns that monochrome
Macs used. The II’s ability to accommo-
date higher-capacity hard drives made it
possible to store large image-files, and the
IPs ability to accept large-screen display
boards (thanks to the introduction of
NuBus) made it possible to display images
without requiring constant scrolling. And
the II’s speed let the machine manipulate
scanned images at a reasonable pace. The
Alac had already become a typesetter.
Now it was about to become a darkroom.
The first commercial gray-scale
image-editing program was Letraset’s
ImageStudio, which was released in 1987
and developed by Mark Zimmer and
Tom Hedges, founders of a small soft-
ware company now called Fractal Design
Corporation. (ImageStudio’s capabilities
even attracted the attention of the Central
Intelligence Agency, which bought many
copies.) Around the time of ImageStudio’s
release, scanners capable of discerning
256 gray levels were becoming common.
Making color computing a reality
Although the Mac II supported color, it
initially wasn’t up to color-image editing.
The original Color QuickDraw worked
with a maximum of only 8 bits per pixel,
allowing 256 colors. That nicely matched
the capabilities of the first color-video
boards and of early color-paint programs,
such as SuperMac’s PixelPaint. But 256
colors were too few to render color pho-
tographs realistically.
One video hardware developer,
RasterOps, worked around tliis problem
by developing video boards that split
red, green, and blue pixels across sepa-
rate image planes, each of which stored 8
bits per pixel. These first 24-bit video
boards painted images in three passes, and
the mouse pointer flickered distractingly
as they did.
The Macintosh platform wasn’t up to
the demands of photo-realistic color
imaging until Apple released 32-bit
QuickDraw in early 1989. It made true
color viable by treating each pixel as a
chunk of 32 bits: 8 each for red, green,
and blue, plus 8 for an optional alpha
channel, which imaging-software devel-
opers could use for special purposes such
94 February 1 994 MACWORLD
1993 NEWTON SHIPS, WHY CAN'T IT READ?
1994 POWERPC TRANSITION
♦ Apple loses Its suit
against Microsoft and
Hewlett-Packard for In-
fringing Mac look and
feel. Microsoft previews
Windows 4.0's very
AAac-llke Interface.
♦ First portable docu-
ment software released
(Common Ground, Ac-
robat, Replica).
♦ Apple realigns Its
products Into business,
consumer, and educa-
tion markets.
♦ Apple announces ♦ Apple ships first
Macintosh Centrises, servers; AOCE follows
LC III, and AV Macs. six months later.
♦ Apple Introduces
Newton.
♦ First Pentium-based
PCs appear.
♦ Microsoft expects to
deliver OLE 2.0 docu-
ment-centric technolo-
gy in the spring; Apple
plans OpenDoc alterna-
tive for late 1994.
♦ First 80MHz Power-
PC Macs are due by late
summer.
♦ First PowerPC Macs
are Introduced.
♦ First notebook and
desktop Macs based
on PowerPC 603 CPU
should be available by
fall.
Universal Press Syndicate, Rob Dudley, Luis Delgado. Background images courtesy of John Creenleigh/Apple Computer (left), and Luis Delgado (right).
as masking. Originally released as an
operating system extension (albeit a
buggy one), 32-bit QuickDraw is now
built into the ROM chips of all color-
capable Macs.
The 3 2 -bit QuickDraw made possible
an explosion of sophisticated graphics and
imaging software, from color image-edit-
ing programs such as ColorStudio and
Adobe Photoshop to 3-D rendering pro-
grams such as Strata’s Strata Vision 3d and
Pixar’s Showplace. And as 24-bit video
boards became common, true-color scan-
ners appeared that made desktop color
scanning a reality.
But as more and more users began
working with multimegabyte image files,
weaknesses in the Mac’s hardware and
system software became apparent. One
problem was performance: the relatively
slow data-transfer rate of a NuBus slot
combined with the fact that the Mac’s
CPU was intimately involved in data
transfers to and from video memory
caused true-color images to ooze onto the
screen. Several video hardware developers
addressed this problem with accelerated
video boards, whose on-board processors
relieved the Mac CPU of much of the
grunt work.
Another weakness of the Mac was that
printed output often didn’t match what
the user saw on screen — a problem for a
color-imaging platform. Color-matching
wrinkles are only now being ironed out,
thanks to color-management sofmare
such as Apple’s ColorSync and Electron-
ics for Imaging’s EfiColor, and thanks to
calibration hardware such as Kodak’s
ColorSense.
Today, the combination of a mature
24-bit color technology and quickly
maturing color-management systems
have made the Mac die premier platform
for color imaging.
Handling the Data Explosion
The impact of true-color technology has
been felt in the storage industry, too.
Besides clamoring for higher-capacity
hard drives, color professionals have
demanded faster storage systems that
improve the performance of disk-
intensive imaging programs such as
Photoshop.
Apple has been slow in responding to
this aspect of Macintosh performance, but
progress is being made. The Quadra 900
and 950 have two SCSI buses that can be
combined to provide faster performance.
The SCSI-2 specification has let vendors
offer faster drives in the last few years.
And when Apple released the AV Macs
last year, it also shipped a long-awaited
rewrite of its SCSI Manager, which in
version 4.3 now provides better support
for the emerging high-speed storage
devices designed to take advantage of it.
Once upon a time, a floppy disk was a
fairly massive storage medium — 368,640
characters! — and with two drives, you
could put your PC’s operating system and
applications on one floppy and your data
on another. The Mac offered a little more
space — 409,600 characters — but that was
misleading. Graphical data and applica-
tions take more space, plus Macs had only
one floppy drive, so the floppy shuffle was
born. Developers hand-tweaked code to
avoid it, which had the side benefit of
making the code run faster and tax the
Mac less. But less than a year after the Mac
was released, IBM delivered truly mas-
sive storage: the first 1.2MB floppy drive.
Apple offered 800K floppy drives only in
March 1987, and 1.4MB floppy drives in
September 1 989 — about five years after
IBM’s first 1.2MB floppy drive.
The Mac was one of the first com-
puters to use the 3 ‘/ 2 -inch floppy disks
encased in a durable shell; most personal
computers, including Apple’s II series,
used the bendable 5 ‘/ 4 -inch disks. Its non-
standard disk size kept the Mac isolated
from other computers — after all, you
could get software that let you share disks
among Apple II, CP/M, and DOS com-
puters, since they at least used the same
floppy media. But today, the 3 ‘/ 2 -inch disk
has finally become the personal comput-
er standard.
But the 3 ‘/ 2 -inch floppy almost didn’t
happen: the first Mac prototype that
Apple showed Maavoi^ld in late 1983 used
the Lisa’s 5 ‘/ 4 -inch Twigg}^ floppies. Ulti-
mately, the 3 ‘/ 2 -inch disk was adopted
because “Twiggy didn’t work,” says
SuperMac’s Crow. He recalls the her-
culean effort to get the 3 ‘/ 2 -inch drive to
work, since it was too late to redesign the
Mac ROM’s floppy storage expectations
of 400K (an amount based on a single-
sided Twiggy disk’s capabilities). Sony’s
3 ‘/ 2 -inch drives were designed to hold
256K, and Apple engineers eventually had
to invent a variable-speed drive to squeeze
in the e.xtra data: by reducing its speed,
the drive can write more data on the
smaller inside tracks. (PC drives are sin-
gle-speed, so they can’t read a 400K or
800K floppy. On botli PCs and Macs, the
1.4MB format is single-speed, which
allows cross-platform disk exchange.)
/MACWORLD February 1 994 9 5
MACINTOSH INNOVATIONS
The Rest of the World
Connectivity was one of the Mac’s strong
points from almost the very first model,
with the release of AppleTalk in 1985 and
the inclusion of LocalTalk ports from the
Mac 512K on. It’s easy to take LocalTalk
for granted, but it introduced concepts
that remain advanced today. Perhaps the
most notable is that network nodes are
dynamically configuring, so you can plug
and unplug nodes at will without recon-
figuring the network.
Witli the simplicity of Apple’s Local-
Talk connectors and Farallon Comput-
ing’s inexpensive PhoneNet connectors
that used standard phone wiring, people
began putting together small departmen-
tal networks — often no more than com-
bining a LaserWriter with several Macs,
We had the vision
tris and Quadra Macs use A/UX, Apple’s
version of Unix, since Unix has all the
necessary server functions built in. And
Apple is porting the Macintosh Operating
System to workstations as part of the joint
IBM-Apple Unix-based PowerOpen op-
erating system now under development;
these workstations will
have the horsepower
to be business servers
in mostly-Macintosh
environments.
Apple has also
begun adding some
server functions (like
System 7’s file shar-
ing and System 7 Pro’s
PowerTalk mail han-
dling) to the Mac Op-
dows?” asks Fractal Designs’ Zimmer.
The cross-platform trend worries
many developers, even those who profit
by it. “Apple’s role in the marketplace is
to do unique things,” says Microsoft
chairman Bill Gates in a sentiment ech-
oed by most developers. “You can’t just
stay on the same old
unique thing you did
ten years ago,” he ad-
vises. The Windows
trend worries Apple,
too, which is why it
has a new software di-
vision, called Apple-
Soft, that will develop
programs that take ad-
vantage of the Mac’s
unique capabilities,
that you shouldn't have to add to the Mac to make
it useful. But the lack of SCSI was simply a mistake.
GEORGE CROW
ORIGINAL MAC DEVELOPER
since the LaserWriter was a vei*}^ ex-
pensive peripheral then, costing more
than a Mac. PhoneNet’s plug-and-
play nature was critical for the corporate
Macintosh users of the day, since
they often had no formal support from
their companies’ MIS departments,
savs Reese Jones, a founder of both
Farallon and BMUG.
PhoneNet’s invention occurred at a
fortuitous time, Jones recalls: the Bell
System had just been broken up by a fed-
eral judge, and a result of the breakup was
to make consumers responsible for the
phone wiring in their homes and offices.
That meant they could now install a
phone-wire-based, networklike Phone-
Net. “Before that, PhoneNet would have
been illegal,” Jones says.
Starting in 1991, Apple pushed to
make Ethernet the new Mac netw^ork
standard by including Ethernet connec-
tors in many Macs, particularly in its
then-new Quadra line. Apple’s goal was
to promote larger Mac networks. But
Apple has long wanted to make Macs
more than just departmental computers —
it wants them to be servers, not just
clients. In fact, Apple announced a Mac-
intosh server in 1985, but it never
shipped. In 1993, Apple introduced the
Workgroup Servers; these modified Gen-
erating System, since small departmental
nemorks based on file sharing still make
up the majority of Mac networks today,
says Morris Taradalsky, vice president of
Apple Business Systems.
The Windows Question
It’s a rare business-oriented Mac applica-
tion today that doesn’t have a Windows
version. The Windows market is twice
that of the Mac market and growing
faster, so Mac developers see a way to get
a piece of a bigger pie. And Windows
developers are porting their applications
to the Mac for what they hope is an inex-
pensive way to access a secondary mar-
ket. The growing availability of cross-
platform development tools (even Apple
has one) makes this easier than ever.
But the move toward cross-platform
software may mean die Mac will lose its
uniqueness. Apple has thus resisted port-
ing some of its new technologies (like the
much-delayed QuickDraw/GX) to Win-
dows, for a simple reason: “If we port
them to Windows, no one will need to
buy a Mac,” admits one Apple engineer.
Yet developers are pressuring Apple to
deliver the goods on Windows so they can
offer identical cross-platform products.
“What good are Apple events or Quick-
Draw/GX if I can’t use them on Win-
such as those introduced in the AV Macs.
But Apple is now also willing to
profit from Windows and promote inter-
operability with it. For example, Apple
sells CD-ROM kits for PCs, and a DOS
coprocessor board for the Quadra 610,
Windows-compatible printers and scan-
ners, and through its Claris subsidiary,
database software (and soon drawing
software).
Wliatever the outcome of the
Windows-Mac competition, it’s undeni-
able that the Mac made the graphical
approach a reality. With the Mac, “this
power was brought to a larger number of
people, and tlianks to its successor, Win-
dows, to a yet larger set of people,” says
Joanna Hoffman, a member of the origi-
nal Mac development team responsible
for much of the early marketing.
A Peek Ahead
Technologically, Apple is banking on the
fast, cheap PowerPC CPU in the short
term to make the Mac at least price-
competitive with Windows PCs, if not
cheaper and faster (see “PowerPC Pre-
view,” this issue).
Over tlie long term, Apple continues
to wrestle with wanting to be a techno-
logical innovator — for example, with its
plans for AppleSearch data navigation.
96 February 1 994 AAACWORLD
r
The Evolving Mac System
A pple’s ambi-
tions have usu-
ally been a little
bit ahead of
the available
CPU technolo-
gy. The original Mac graphical
interface was an uncomfortable
stretch for the poor old Motorola
68000 processor. When color
Macs appeared, sporting the
faster 68020, they hit the Adobe
Photoshop wall. People could
process large color files — but
agonizingly slowly. With succes-
sive processors, Macs got faster,
only to encounter new technolo-
gies — such as QuickTime and
voice recognition — that again
strained processing and data-
throughput limits.
That pattern will soon
change. RISC (reduced instruc-
tion set computer) processors,
multiprocessor computing archi-
tectures, and data buses now on
the drawing board will be fast
enough for almost any task Mac
people have yet envisioned.
The RISC difference The
68040, first seen In
Quadras and now In
mainstream ma-
chines, represent
(along with Intel's
Pentium) nearly the
final evolutionary
stage of the CISC
(complex Instruction
set computer) on a
single chip. Because
CISC designs have
begun to reach a
point of diminishing
returns, designers
image processing and large-scale
database work? The first path to
boosting power is to squeeze
more from a single chip. Motor-
ola's planned PowerPC 620 will
have 64-blt-wlde registers and
data paths (the 601 chips are 32-
bit). This will let the 620 handle
more instructions simultaneously,
which should make it four times
as fast as a 601 .
But don't expect a 660 chip
any time soon. Designers are
reaching the limits of how many
transistors they can add without
causing the CPU to overheat.
Meanwhile, the ramp-up costs
for each new generation of CPUs
are becoming prohibitively cost-
ly — another practical limit on
single-chip power.
Side by side by side Mac
hardware developers therefore
see the future of increased power
in combining processors. One
such approach is to divide a task
among two or more chips and
run them in parallel. "Image
modification and 3-D graphics
are natural tasks for dedicated
parallel accelerators," says Jay
Torberg, vice president of engi-
neering at SuperMac.
But parallel processing soft-
ware has proved elusive for most
business applications. That's
where multiprocessing — using a
separate CPU chip for each appli-
cation — comes In. Excel, 4th
Dimension, and a fax modem, for
example, would each get a 601
CPU and an allocation of main
memory. (The AV Macs, which
combine 68040 and digital signal
processors, use this approach.)
sor system," Holmiund says.
Even without document
architectures, many Macintosh
users keep several applications
open at once, making multitask-
ing an obvious pathway to power
as system architecture evolves.
Moving data faster But
high-speed processing is less sig-
nificant if data can't move equal-
ly quickly to the hard drive or
across the network. And the
Mac's venerable NuBus Input/
output standard can’t keep up
with such data-transmission
rates. Thus, Apple has endorsed
the faster, cross- platform Periph-
eral Component Interconnect
(PCI) bus (already adopted by
IBM, DEC, and Compaq) as the
expansion bus on the PowerPC
Macs for 1995 and beyond.
But bear in mind that you
can't even buy a PCI-based
Mac yet. And already PCI can't
keep up with high-end data net-
work communications involving
lOOMB-plus files. For that, we
turn to QuIckRing, an Apple
design implemented by National
Semiconductor. Two QuIckRing
network nodes can transmit and
receive at 200MB per second —
fast enough to exchange full-
screen video or to download 200
records (1 MB each) on your com-
pany's annual sales in less than
2 seconds. So far 1 1 companies
have announced QuIckRing
products; the standard should be
with us through the year 2000.
All this computing power
would seem wasted, though, if It
were used only to speed up exist-
ing applications. I recently gave a
RADIUS'S STEVE HOLAALUNO: UNDER OPENDOC, MULTIPROCESSING WILL BEAT ANY S I N G L E - P R O C E S S O R SYSTEM
have turned to RISC chips.
The RISC-based PowerPC
601 chip, the core of PowerPC
Macs slated for release this
spring, relies on fewer than half
as many basic instructions as the
68040 to accomplish the same
tasks. A PowerPC 601 Mac run-
ning at 80MHz should operate
two to four times as fast as a
Quadra 800 (see "PowerPC Pre-
view," this issue).
That should take care of rou-
tine chores, but what about
Steve Holmiund, who directs
multiprocessing development at
Radius, thinks that multiprocess-
ing will work well with forthcom-
ing document architectures that
have documents made of parts —
for example, text, a graphic, and
a chart — and small applications
that are content modifiers (see
the sidebar "Transforming the
Mac Interface"). "If you have
dedicated processors and memo-
ry driving each part, you will be
faster than any single-proces-
Newton demonstration for a ten-
year-old, who then asked,
"When can I have a computer at
school with a screen the size of
the desktop? I could do all my
arithmetic problems and fix my
spelling on It, and the teacher
could just look at it from her desk
screen." A pen -based system of
this kind would require astro-
nomical processing power. Now
there's an idea that looks more
like the future than faster Photo-
shop masks.— Charies Seiter
MACWORLD February 1994 97
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Graphical Interfaces Everywhere
T en years ago, the
Mac stood apart,
thanks largely
to its graphical
interface. Today,
it seems that ev-
ery computer has such an inter-
face, as the accompanying screen
images show.
Perhaps the most well
known Is Microsoft Windows.
Over the years, Windows has
gotten more Mac-like, although
all graphical interfaces share
many of the same basic struc-
tures. One reason for the similar-
ity is that they are all based on
the use of real-world metaphors,
so it's not surprising that the
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ideas of, say, folders and docu-
ments are common. Another rea-
son for the similarity is that most
current interfaces, including the
Mac's, evolved from the same
interface research. Yet another
reason is that interface develop-
ers follow what works: it's no sur-
prise that, now that Apple has
lost the intellectual- property law-
suit over its interface, the forth-
coming Windows 4.0 will use a
Mac-like folder icon instead of its
current group icon.
But having a good graphical
interface is only half the battle:
"A Mac application by its very
nature has more attention paid to
its aesthetics. The Mac developer
has a head start compared to a
Windows developer," says Lee
Lorenzen, who worked on an
early PC graphical interface called
GEM and Is now president of
Altura Software. This head start
helps Mac developers port their
programs to Windows.
— Galen Gruman
/MICROSOFT WINDOWS 3.1
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OpenDoc document-oriented tools,
PlainTalk speech recognition, . and
audio/video processing — while also want-
ing to be accepted by and compatible with
the larger business market. Apple’s goal
seems to be to make the Mac capable of
running Windows while also offering die
unique features of the Mac Operating
System; that way Windows users can
buy Apple hardware and discover the
joys of Macintosh software, while Mac
owners can stop justifying their choice
of computer.
With the Mac, Apple has clearly suc-
ceeded in delivering useful innovations,
and through what it’s given to the com-
puter industry as a whole, it has also suc-
ceeded in bringing those innovations to
the world at large. The evolution is clear-
ly not over, m
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with the Mac in 1983, several months before
its introduction.
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PowerPC
Preview
ou probably never thought about
having monophonic TV until televi-
sion stations started broadcasting
stereo. And few of us knew our Macs
were complex instruction set com-
puters (CISC) until chip manufac-
turers started making reduced
instruction set computer (RISC)
After 10 years of Macs based on the 68000-
processors. In the next few months,
Apple plans to trot out the first Macs
running on IBM/Motorola Power-
PC RISC processors rather than on
Motorola 680X0 CISC processors
(680X0 is pronounced 68-kay), The
new breed of Macs will look like
today’s breed even after you start
them up, and they will run almost
all the software you already have, as
is. Moreover, most add-on hardware
will work on both 680X0 and
PowerPC Macs. To benefit from a
PowerPC Mac, you must run new
and upgraded software written for it.
Then you will feel two to four times
the speed of a Quadra 650 running
680X0 versions of the same soft-
ware. Apple hasn’t specified prices
and configurations yet but has
implied that the first PowerPC Macs
will look and cost like today’s
Quadra 610, 650, and 800 models.
PowerPC performance has
arrived in the nick of time for Apple,
and not by accident. For some time
now, the fastest Macs have run slow-
er and cost more than competing
DOS and Windows PCs based on
Intel CPUs. Plus, it’s clear that the
processor family, pre-
pare yourself for the
next generation
of Macintosh CPUs
Si iiV!
102 February 1994 MACWORLD
POWERPC PREVIEW
CISC architecture used in Motorola’s
680X0 CPUs, and even in Intel’s faster
486DX and Pentium CPUs, is reaching
its maximum possible performance. “The
PowerPC 601 is a great chip now, with
lots of headroom, w'hereas the Intel archi-
tecture is starting to max out,” says Steve
Guttman, senior product marketing man-
ager at Adobe Systems.
Changing CPU architectures is a
major effort for any computer maker,
since it requires redesigning the operat-
ing system to deal with the new' CPU. But
by making the switch, Apple should ensure
that the Pow'erPC Macs are at least as fast
as competing Windows PCs now\ And the
PowerPC architecture promises to be-
come even faster over the next two years.
Initially, the PowerPC’s sole advan-
The PowerPC 601
we spot-checked a cross section of Mac-
intosh sofhvare and hardw^are developers,
few of whom reported any compatibility
problems with their current products.
Operating system You already know
how' to use a Pow'erPC Mac if you are
among the 59 percent of Mac users who
now use System 7. That same version of
system software will
control what you see
on a PowerPC Mac
screen and what you
do with the keyboard
and mouse. Like other
new' Macs, the Pow'-
erPC Macs will re-
quire a specific System
Enabler in the System
Folder. Apple hasn’t
Most of these products fail because they
bypass 680X0 Mac programming conven-
tions and either infiltrate the operating
system or work directly wdth the hard-
ware. The PowerPC Macs retain 680X0
conventions but change the hardware and
system software behind them, causing
incompatibilities among programs that
byj)ass die conventions.
The PowerPC
Macs’ high level of
compatibility is pos-
sible even though
PowerPC CPUs have
a completely differ-
ent language, or set
of instructions, than
680X0 CPUs. An
emulator program in
is a great chip now, with lots of headroom, whereas
the Intel architecture is starting to max out
STEVE GUTTMAN
SENIOR PRODUCT MARKETING MANAGER, ADOBE SYSTEMS
tage will be speed, but Apple hopes devel-
opers will use that extra speed to intro-
duce innovative capabilities that current
Macs just can’t manage. “The PowerPC
may do like PageMaker did: allow a new'
type of technology,” says Brodie Keast,
Apple’s director of product marketing.
He points to telephone, voice mail, tele-
conferencing, video, and other AV tech-
nologies that Apple introduced in 1993
but that, to be commonly used, need more
power than the 68040 CPU offers.
Making the Transition
The PowerPC is a new family of CPUs,
but the computers that Apple makes with
them will still be Macs. For users, the
transition w'ill be a lot like changing from
a 68000 Mac to a 68030 or 68040 Mac.
Most people will upgrade and buy new
software to take advantage of the new' per-
formance level, and some people will
experience problems. But the transition to
PowerPC Macs w'ill not be at all like mov-
ing to a Windows PC from the Mac — you
will not have to relearn the basics.
Furthermore, the transition to a Pow-
erPC Mac should present less compati-
bility trauma than previous noteworthy
transitions, such as to System 7 in 1991
or to the Ilci and 32-bit addressing in
1989. At Maavorldy we were skeptical until
said whether it will introduce a new ver-
sion of System 7 with the new' machines
or continue shipping System 7.1.
Apple ought to bundle optional sys-
tem extensions such as QuickTime (for
motion video), QuickDraw/GX (for drag-
and-drop printing to multiple desktop
printer icons, portable documents with
embedded fonts, dynamic type manipula-
tion, and multilingual text), and Power-
Talk (for integrated E-mail and other col-
laborative services). However, Apple has
not yet committed to doing so. Apple says
the PlainTalk extension (for speech
recognition and tcxt-to-speech conver-
sion) will be available on the PowerPC
CPU, but the company hasn’t said when
that will happen or whether PlainTalk
will require an add-on coprocessor.
Software compatibility All types of
680X0 software w'ork fine on Pow erPC
Macs, according to developers of repre-
sentative w'ord processor, spreadsheet,
page-layout, image-editing, presentation,
database, graphics, integrated, macro-
utility, E-mail, and disk-driver software.
That doesn’t mean everything will be
compatible: about 10 percent of applica-
tions, extensions, and utilities tested at
Apple’s PowerPC compatibility lab don’t
work on PowerPC Macs, say both inde-
pendent developers and Apple engineers.
the PowerPC Mac’s ROM translates
680X0 instructions to PowerPC in-
structions behind the scenes while the
680X0 software is running (see the side-
bar “How Tomorrow’s Macs Run
Today’s Software”).
Since the emulator doesn’t translate
FPU instructions, 680X0 sofnvare that
requires a floating-point unit won’t w'ork
on a PowerPC Mac any more than such
software works on a Centris 610. Apple
has decided not to make the emulator
compatible with die 680X0 FPUs because
only a few programs require the 680X0
FPU and because Apple expects develop-
ers to offer PowerPC versions of these
programs soon after the PowerPC Macs
are released, says Jim Gable, product
manager for PowerPC hardw'are.
The emulator interprets the instruc-
tion set of a 68LC040 (a 68040 w'ithout an
FPU), so any application compatible w'ith
this CPU’s instruction set should be com-
patible with the PowerPC. Thus, all types
of software will work with the emulator —
applications, desk accessories, control
panels, system extensions, fonts, disk
drivers, you name it. Even parts of the sys-
tem software itself use the emulator.
In addition, a version of the Unix
operating system known as PowerOpen
is now under development. All PowerPC
104 February 1 994 /MACWORLD
Macs should be able to use PowerOpen
when it becomes available to run both
Unix software and Mac software compat-
ible with System 7 (including native
PowerPC software and emulated 680X0
software). On such systems, System 7 and
all its applications will run inside a Power-
Open window. Other PowerOpen win-
dows can run Unix software concurrent-
ly. The PowerOpen Association, of which
Apple is a charter member, plans to have
the PowerOpen specification finished
early in 1994. The association does not
develop or market PowerOpen software.
Apple, however, plans to have its Power-
Open operating system ready for Power-
PC Macs by summer 1994. Apple’s effort
includes developing an extension to
PowerOpen, called Macintosh Applica-
tion Semces (MAS), that enables running
System 7 and compatible applications
under PowerOpen. Apple will license
MiVS to other association members, and
has already done so to IBM.
PowerPC Macs can also run Win-
dows software with Insignia Solutions’
SoftWindows. Using Windows 3.1 soft-
ware licensed from Microsoft, an early
SoftWindows version we saw ran Win-
dows applications on a 66MHz protot)^c
PowerPC Mac at about the speed of a
25MHz 486DX-based PC, a configura-
tion equivalent in performance to a
Quadra 610 or Centris 650. Ironically,
Windows programs using SoftWindows
on the prototype PowerPC Macs ran
faster than 680X0 programs did. Insig-
nia’s license includes the forthcoming
Windows 4.0, and Insignia says it will
update SoftWindows with that version
after Windows 4.0 is released in late 1994.
Software performance Performance
of 680X0 software on PowerPC Macs is a
bigger problem than compatibility,
because emulation cuts performance
sharply. Developers have reported that
the early prototype PowerPC Macs ran
some 680X0 sofnvare at the speed of an
LC II (which has a 16MHz 68030 CPU),
although they ran most 680X0 programs
as fast as a TIci (which has a 25MHz 030).
Apple hopes to boost emulator speed to
the level of a Ilfx or Quadra 605 before it
ships the PowerPC Macs. This would be
fast enough for emulated word process-
ing, spreadsheets, black-and-white pub-
lishing, and other such applications.
For better performance with Power-
PC CPUs, Apple has been rewriting the
parts of the system software that require
the most computational powder, such as
QuickDraw^ using Pow'erPC native
instructions. These changes affect the feel
but not the look of System 7 on Pow^er-
PC Macs. They also speed up emulated
applications because most of them dele-
gate a great deal of work to the system
software — some applications spend up to
90 percent of their time using it.
Not satisfied with emulation perfor-
mance, many developers are rewriting
their applications with PowerPC code.
Native PowerPC applications should run
betw'een tw^o and four times faster on a
PowerPC Mac than native 680X0 appli-
cations run on a Quadra, according to
Apple and independent developers. Tasks
that involve lots of FPU calculations
should speed up even more. (Apple did
not let Macworld Lab test a prototype
PowerPC Mac with prerelease software
for this article; however, our informal
experience with prototype PowerPC
Macs confirmed developers’ estimates for
both emulated and native perfonnance.)
So you may want to w^ait until your most-
used programs are available in Pow^erPC
versions before getting a Pow'erPC Mac.
ACn US, Aldus Corporation, Aladdin
Systems, CE Software, Claris Corpora-
tion, Dantz Development Corporation,
Deneba Software, Frame Technology,
Insignia Solutions, Microsoft Corpora-
tion, Specular International, and Word-
Perfect Corporation all intend to port at
least some applications either by the time
Apple launches the PowerPC Macs or
shortly thereafter. None of these compa-
nies has yet decided on upgrade policies.
Most developers we spoke with are
creating purely native PowerPC applica-
tions, but some are creating hybrids that
combine emulated and native code, as
Apple has done with the system software.
The PowerPC Mac runs native Pow-
erPC software in one mode and emulates
680X0 software in another mode. A new^
part of the system software, called the
Mixed Mode Manager, automatically
switches benveen emulation and native
How Tomorrow's Macs Run Today's Software
A PowerPC Mac can run software written for a 680X0 (pronounced 68-kay) Mac
with the help of an emulator program. The emulator, which is part of the operating
system in the PowerPC Mac's ROM, translates 680X0 instructions into equivalent
PowerPC Instructions. On a PowerPC Mac, System 7 has to decide whether the
software it's running — an application, INIT, or System 7 component — Is a native
program (uses PowerPC code), emulated program (uses 680X0 code), or hybrid
program (uses both types of code). Insignia SoluUons uses a similar approach to make
Windows software run on PowerPC Macs.
To detect what kind of code a program uses. System 7 for PowerPC uses a new
component called the Mixed Mode Manager. The manager intercepts every program
when launched (A) and decides whether to use the emulator (B) or not (C). For
hybrid programs, the Mixed Mode Manager must turn the emulator on and off as
the program Is running.
Program
Operating System
Mixed Mode
Manager
PowerPC CPU
Assessing Performance for Different Program Types
Emulation takes time and slows performance, but Apple hopes that the PowerPC
CPU's speed will make up for this. Native software does not need the emulator and
runs considerably faster. Macworld was unable to obtain a prototype system from
Apple, but our informal evaluations of early 66MHz versions and reports from
developers point to the performance you can expect from different types of software
(below) when the first PowerPC Macs are released. Speeds are Indicated as ranges
because of variance In software and ongoing development of the PowerPC Macs.
PowerPC Macs*
Native software
680X0 software
Windows software
Other computers
(for comparison)
Times as fast as a Classic (Classic n 1 .0).
rllci Quadra 610-1
^ 33MHz 486DX Windows PC
“TT
5 10 15 20
Estimated performance based on a prototype 66MHz PowerPC Mac
I I I i i I i T ~T~ l i I I T
25 30 35
MACWORLD February 1 994 1 0 5
POWERPC PREVIEW
Five Reasons the PowerPC Is a Better CPU
The internal design of the PowerPC 601 , a RISC (reduced instruction set computer) CPU. is very different from the Motorola 68040, a CISC
(complex instruction set computer) CPU. Apple Is banking on the benefits of RISC to make future Macs easily competitive with other PCs In
price and performance. In five key areas, the 601 has an edge over the 040.
1. More efficient overall design
The PowerPC 601 's RISC architecture enables
the CPU to process instructions efficiently, by using
independent execution units to handle multiple
instructions simultaneously. The 68040's CISC
architecture usually must shuttle instructions
through different units one at a time. The 601 also
uses a smaller vocabulary of instructions, while the
040 combines instructions from a large vocabulary
into complex instructions that take more processing
time. Sometimes it takes several RISC instructions
to do the work of a single CISC instruction, but
more often than not. the RISC approach Is more
efficient overall.
601 CPU architecture
Floating-
r point
unit I
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2. More processing per cycle
The 601 's Instruction unit holds eight instructions
and can send up to three per clock cycle to other
execution units in the CPU for simultaneous
processing. By contrast, the 040's integer unit
holds an average of just three instructions and can
send only one instruction per clock cycle, in strict
first-come-first-served order. The 601 can hold
more instructions because its holding slots are
longer (32-bit) than the 040's (16-bit). Frequently,
only part of an instruction can fit In an 040 slot, so
one instruction can take up several slots In the
queue.
601 Instruction unit queue
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lOOIIOOIIOOIIOOl
lOOIIOOIIOOIIOOl
lOOIIOOIIOOIIOOl
lOOIIOOIIOOIIOOl
3. Smarter instruction handling
The 601 includes an independent branch proces-
sing unit (BPU) that can process some Instructions
before they’re needed by the integer unit. These
branch instructions help the CPU decide what set of
calculations (a branch) to do based on the CPU’s
current status. By examining branches early, the
BPU can detect when a branch calculation Is not
needed, thus removing some work from the integer
unit. This In turn speeds up overall processing. By
contrast, the 040’s dependent BPU can only narrow
down branch calculation options for the integer unit
but not remove unneeded calculations.
4. Better memory handling
The 601 has a large (32K) cache In which to hold
frequently used instructions and data, thus minimiz-
ing the delays of getting them from system mem-
ory. The 601 's memory bus handles 64 bits of data
at a time — double that of the 040’s, so the 601 can
transfer more Information per clock cycle. The 040
uses two smaller (4K) caches, one each for data and
instructions.
■I Data Instructions
601 cache 040 cache
64-bit bus
5. Faster floating-point processing
The 601 's floating-point unit (FPU) is designed to
work very fast, so applications that use floating-
point math will see great speedup with the Power-
PC CPU. (Programs today rely more on integer cal-
culations, which are sped up by a lesser degree on
the PowerPC. Apple is thus encouraging developers
to use more floating-point calculations.) A major
reason for the 601 FPU’s high speed is that It works
independently of the integer unit, both getting
floating-point instructions directly from the instruc-
tion unit and processing them while the integer unit
is doing other work. By contrast, the 040’s FPU
must wait for the Integer unit to give it floating-
point calculations and wait again to pass back the
results for further processing by the Integer unit.
modes. Each time it switches modes, it
pauses normal processing briefly to save
the current state of the computer and
restore the most recent state of the alter-
nate mode. Thus, while each mode switch
takes a tiny fraction of a second, it’s not
hard to imagine mode switches adding up
to a perceptible processing slow'dowm. In
fact, excessive mode switching can make a
hybrid program slower than a purely emu-
lated program, requiring careful hybrid
design programs to avoid this pitfall.
Even completely native PowerPC
applications incur some mode-switching
overhead, because the Pow^erPC Mac’s
system software is itself a hybrid. This
overhead will gradually disappear as
Apple translates more pieces of system
sof^are to full native versions, but Apple
doesn’t expect to complete the process in
the first year. In fact, some less-used
pieces of system softw^are may never be
ported, says Pierre Cesarini, Apple’s
product manager for PowerPC operating
system development. The last pieces to be
translated will be the ones that run near-
ly as fast with emulation as without and
that switch modes w hile you are w^aiting
for something else to happen.
Add-on hardware NuBus cards,
internal storage devices, external storage,
scanners, printers, modems (including
ADB modems), graphics tablets, and
monitors all should w'ork as well on Pow-
erPC Macs as on current Quadra models.
But PDS cards made for 680X0 Macs w ill
not work on PowerPC Macs.
The first PowerPC Macs will use 72-
pin SIMMs like nearly all current Macs,
106 February 1 994 MACWORLD
but you will have to install them two at a
time. This requirement stems from the
feet that PowerPC CPUs access memory
64 bits at a time, whereas the 72 -pin
SIMMs deliver 32 bits at a time (match-
ing the 3 2 -bit rate of all current Macs). It
takes two 32-bit 72-pin SIMMs to make
a 64-bit bank of ElAM. When 64-bit
SIMMs become available, perhaps by
1995, Apple may adopt them and drop the
current 32-bit SIMMs.
Apple will stick with NuBus for the
first PowerPC Macs but will eventually
replace NuBus with a faster expansion
bus: Peripheral Component Interconnect
(PCI). Intel designed PCI for fester data
transfer between expansion cards and the
system board, and in theory expansion
cards could work in both DOS comput-
ers and in Macs. Although PCI has start-
ed to appear in DOS and Windows com-
puters, Apple probably won’t make Macs
with PCI slots imtil late 1994. You can
opt to hold out until then and get a
PowerPC Mac, PCI cards, and software
upgrades all at once, or you can make the
transition in stages. Any NuBus cards you
already have should work with the up-
coming PowerPC Macs, although some
models will accept only 7-inch cards.
Upgrade options The PowerPC’s
impressive performance potential will be
available to anyone in die market for a
new computer and to some Mac owners
looking for upgrades. Apple intends to
offer system-board upgrades for Mac case
styles used in the Centris 610 and the
Quadra 610; the Ilvi, IIvx, Performa 600,
Centris 650 and 660AV, and Quadra 650
and 660AV; and the Quadra 800 and
840AV. Apple will also have upgrades for
its Work^oup Servers. But Apple usual-
ly gives priority to making new Macs, not
upgrade boards, so the initial supply of
upgrade kits may be short.
It’s not clear what a PowerPC up-
grade might mean for 660AV and 840AV
owners, since the upgrade boards almost
certainly will not include a DSP coproces-
sor. The PowerPC CPU, like a DSP, is
fast enough to process audio and video
signals as they happen. But doing that
work and handling applications will prob-
ably slow system performance. In that
case, expect to see DSP coprocessor cards
offered to make up for the lost perfor-
mance. Apple has said some PowerPC
Macs will support AV technologies, but it
hasn’t said if any of the first PowerPC
Macs and upgrades will have the Geo-
Port or other audio and video ports.
The upgrade kits are sure to include
a system software upgrade that you will
have to install on your start-up disk.
Expect to be able to use the internal stor-
age devices you already have, but don’t
expect to be happy with any old hard
drive. You’ll need a big, fest drive for this
class of computer. To complete the
upgrade, you may need fester RAM.
At least one other company will have
an upgrade card. DayStar Digital says its
PowerPC Accelerator, a PDS card, will be
available when Apple ships its first Pow-
erPC Macs. DayStar’s accelerator will
include a PowerPC CPU and everything
else needed to make your Centris or
Quadra think it’s a PowerPC Mac, says
DayStar product manager Ted Cheney.
That scheme will include putting the sys-
tem software in ROM. Eventually, Day-
Star intends to make versions of this
accelerator for other Mac models.
With the DayStar card you won’t
have to change your system configura-
tion other than updating the system soft-
ware, says Cheney. This upgrade works
with the RAM SIMMs already on your
system board; however, the SIMMs can
transfer only half as much data at a time
as the PowerPC. This slowdown can be
reduced by placing high-speed cache
memory on the adapter card so that the
PowerPC doesn’t need to access memory
on the system board as often. DayStar
hadn’t decided at this writing how much
cache to include on its PowerPC Accel-
erator, but it expects the PowerPC Accel-
erator to be 90 to 95 percent as fest as a
replacement PowerPC S 3 ^tem board from
Apple and to cost less.
When to get a PowerPC What to do
until the PowerPC Macs arrive depends
on the software you use and the class of
desktop system you use or plan to get.
The first PowerPC Macs will be
midrange to high-end desktop systems,
according to Apple, so they affect you
only if you’re planning to buy a Quadra,
an LC 475, or a Performa 475 or 476.
To decide when to buy a PowerPC,
ask yourself which applications you could
not bear to use at nd or LC III speeds,
and then wait until all of those are avail-
able in native PowerPC versions. But
don’t hold out for PowerPC native ver-
sions of word processor, spreadsheet, sin-
gle-user database, and other software that
performs acceptably at Ilci or LC III
speeds, because the 680X0 versions will
probably work fine under emulation. If
you need a new Mac in the meantime, buy
a Quadra 610, 650, 660AV, 800, or
840AV and upgrade to a PowerPC later.
You’re not likely to suffer buyer’s
remorse over the purchase of a Power-
Book or an entry-level 680X0 desktop
Mac, because those models won’t be
affected by the PowerPC at least until the
third quarter of 1994, when. Motorola
and IBM say, a low-power, low-cost Pow-
erPC CPU will become available in large
quantity. And don’t hesitate to buy exist-
ing software for those models; the soft-
ware will work at the speed you’re used
to if you later move it to a PowerPC Mac.
Inside PowerPC
Apple realized more than two years ago
that CISC processors such as Motorola’s
680X0 femily and Intel’s 80X86/Peritium
family would reach a performance
plateau. In 1991, Apple allied itself with
IBM and Motorola to create the Power-
PC family of RISC processors, whose
performance would start near the top of
CISC performance and climb through
successive generations to a new plateau.
The firat of these CPUs, the Power-
PC 601, has been shipping in large quan-
tity since September 1993 and wiH drive
the PowerPC Macs and upgrades coming
this spring. The 601 is faster than the
fastest 680^ and as fest as the Pentium.
Future PowerPC generations will be
much faster while remaining compatible
with programs written for earlier genera-
tions, according to Motorola.
Why RISC is faster All PowerPC
CPUs achieve their performance by pro-
cessing instructions faster than CISC
CPUs (see the diagram “Five Reasons the
PowerPC Is a Better CPU”). The chips
adhere to the following design principles
of RISC, whose goal is to complete one
instruction every CPU clock cycle.
• Uniform instruction size expedites the
fetching of instructions. RISC processors
never have to pause and retrieve addi-
tional words to complete a pending
instruction, as CISC processors some-
times do.
• A reduced set of instructions simplifies
instruction processing. RISC chips have
little if any of the microcode (micropro-
grams) that tells them how to process
complex instructions and sprawls across
half of some CISC chips.
• Simple memory-addressing methods
quickly access main memory on the sys-
tem board. RISC methods do not include
complex calculations and multiple mem-
ory references, as the most sophisticated
CISC methods do.
• Limited memory-access instructions
reduce instruction size and simplify
instruction processing. RISC instructions
that manipulate data never get or put data
in memory, but many CISC instructions
combine those fimetions.
• An abundance of registers lessens mem-
ory accesses. Compared with CISC pro-
grams, RISC programs keep more inter-
im results on the chip in registers and
fewer off the chip in main memory.
These principles make RISC pro-
grams longer and fester than equivalent
CISC programs. It may seem that the
MACWORLD February 1994 107
POWERPC PREVIEW
shorter CISC programs should be faster,
but the microcode required to handle
complex instructions slows down the sim-
ple instructions that occur most often
even in CISC programs, resulting in a net
loss of performance.
Performance enhancements Besides
adhering to these RISC design principles,
PowerPC CPUs also include important
performance-enhancing features found in
both RISC and CISC processors.
For one, PowerPC CPUs process
several instructions concurrently in a
multistage pipeline. Each instruction pro-
gresses from stage to stage with another
instruction in the stage ahead and yet
another in the stage behind, like Idds
crawling together through a culvert one
after another. It would take the group
longer to get through if each went
through alone. The pipeline may stall if
the CPU has to wait for instructions com-
ing from (or for data coming from or
going to) main memory. CPU designers
minimize such stalls by including a cache
to store frequently used instructions and
data directly on the chip.
The 601 has one 32K cache in which
it stores copies of the most recently used
memory locations; the cache can contain
both instructions and data, as well as loca-
tions it guesses may be needed soon. By
comparison, 68030s and 68040s have two
smaller caches, one for data and one for
instructions. The 601*s unified cache
can’t supply instructions and data simul-
taneously like the 040’s dual cache. How-
ever, a unified cache is more adaptable to
tasks that benefit from unequal amounts
of instruction and data, such as applying
filters and effects to graphic images.
A different RISC Several aspects of
PowerPC design set it apart from other
RISC and CISC designs and improve its
overall performance.
First, PowerPC CPUs complete sev-
eral instructions in one clock cycle by
simultaneously issuing instructions to
multiple execution units within the CPU
(called superscalar instruction dispatch).
The 601 has three independent,
pipelined execution units: a four-stage
integer unit, which also handles memory
accesses; a five-stage FPU; and a two-
stage branch processing unit (BPU). The
601’s FPU operates independently of the
other units, unlike the FPU built into the
030 and 040 CPUs, which depends on the
integer unit to fetch instructions, get data,
and store results. The 601*s imits can
complete instructions out of order, but
always store results to registers in the cor-
rect sequence. Often, a unit that is wait-
ing to store its results can begin process-
ing another instruction.
To keep the integer, floating-point,
and branch processing pipelines busy, a
program must have the right mix of
instructions. This requirement poses a
problem for existing Macintosh pro-
grams, many of which have few — ^if any —
floating-point instructions. With the
FPU idle, the 601 cannot do better than
two instructions per clock cycle. When
porting 680X0 programs to the Power-
PC, developers must include more float-
ing-point operations so the FPU shares
the overall load of running the program.
A second factor that differentiates
PowerPC design diminishes a major
drawback of RISC processors: they use
more instructions to complete a task,
thereby increasing program size. Power-
PC design includes several compound
instructions; that technique helps reduce
program size without reverting to full-
blown complex instructions. Some com-
pound instructions are particularly useful
in 680X0 emulation, including instruc-
tions that load or store multiple registers
at once, manipulate bits of data or bit
ranges, and load or store strings arbitrar-
ily digned in memory.
PowerPC CPUs also differ from
other RISC designs in how they process
conditional branch instructions. {Condi-
tional branches are like a fork in a path; the
CPU bases the decision to continue
straight ahead or branch off on certain
conditions at the time.) The 601’s BPU
looks ahead for an upcoming conditional
branch instruction and tries to resolve the
condition early. If successful resolution
does not result in branching off, the pro-
gram proceeds as if the branch instruction
were never there, effectively executing the
branch instruction in zero clock cycles. If
successfully resolving the condition
results in branching off, the BPU requests
new instructions along the new instruc-
tion path from the CPU’s cache.
Other advantages Recent genera-
tions of CISC processors — ^including the
68030, the 68040, and the Pentium —
incorporate some RISC features and
achieve the basic RISC goal of one
instruction per clock cycle. Like the Pow-
erPC, the Pentium has a superscalar
RISC core, with an extensive microcode
outer layer to support 80X86 CISC
instructions. This complexity makes the
Pentium more than twice the PowerPC
601’s size (292mm^ versus 12 Imm^). Due
to its large size, the Pentium uses more
power than the 601 (16 watts versus 8.5w
at peak use), and the Pentium costs much
more ($898 per CPU versus $350 for
66MHz versions in large quantities).
The PowerPC Family
The PowerPC 601 is just the first of sev-
eral PowerPC CPUs now in the pipeline.
The next version, the 603, achieves simi-
lar performance with a different internal
architecture, says Motorola. The 603 can
execute up to three instructions per clock
cycle to its five independent execution
units: a BPU, an integer unit, an FPU, a
load/store unit, and a system-register
unit. To keep its pipelines full, the 603
has separate instruction and data caches,
each 8K.
The real advantage of the 603, how-
ever, is that it reduces power consumption
from its maximum of 3w by shutting
down any execution unit not in use and by
automatically starting up the unit as need-
ed, all without the software knowing any-
thing has happened. This and other
power-management techniques make the
603 well sxiited to battery-operated com-
puters; Apple plans PowerPC Power-
Books with the 603, perhaps by late 1994.
The 603 should also be cheaper than the
601 because it is smaller, so expect to see
the 603 used in home and entry-level
business Macs. The PowerPC 604, due a
year from now, will be considerably fester
than the 603; and the 620, due sometime
after that, will be considerably fester than
the 604, according to Motorola.
Expect the 604 to succeed the 601 in
midrange and high-end desktop Macs
during 1995. The 603 and the 604 should
remain in use for several years. The 620
is being designed for workstations, a fester
class of computers than personal comput-
ers (including Macs), but a body of com-
patible software developed for the 603
and 604 together with the PowerOpen
operating system would ease Apple’s
entry into the workstation market. Pow-
erPC software should be compatible with
all the PowerPC CPUs despite their very
different internal architectures because
they share the same instruction set
PowerPC's Significance
PowerPC CPUs give the Macintosh a
future. Apple needs the 601’s speed and
price to compete with Windows comput-
ers based on Intel’s 80486DX2 and Pen-
tium CPUs. Already, Windows PCs out-
number Macs more than two to one, and
companies that once developed exclusive-
ly for the Mac now develop first for 'Win-
dows. The PowerPC Macs mean you will
no longer have to buy 'Windows to get the
best raw performance and price. And the
PowerPC CPU gives Apple the core that
should assure future Macs will remain
competitive with future PCs in terms of
both performance and price and that
they’ll continue to be innovative, m
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Mystique
purred on by their messianic leader
Steve Jobs, a talented, youthful team
of T-shirt-clad “techno-flower chil-
dren,” as their adman called them, was
on a crusade. Working absurd hours
and thriving on punishing deadlines.
Did the Mac deliver on its big promise — an easy-
to-use machine
that would empower
the individual and
change the world?
they adopted a cultish dedication to a
singular goal: Macintosh.
I'he people who created the Mac-
intosh viewed themselves as sa\dng
humanity from the mediocrity and col-
orlessness of other computers. “The
IBM guys were totally practical. They
were excited about building a really
useful machine for things that people
were already using computers for: word
processing, databases, and spreadsheets.
Over at .Apple, the excitement was over
building an appliance that would do
new things,” says Michael McConnell,
who worked on the development and
rollouts of die Apple II, Macintosh, and
IBM PC, and is now president of
SuperMac Technolog)\
The Mac developers also wanted to
save Apple itself from the Apple II and
Lisa computers, which they considered
dead ends. Jobs’s rallying cry for the
xMac team was “It’s better to be a pirate
than to join die navy” — the navy being
the rest of Apple. The Mac team want-
ed a machine for free-thinking, dis-
criminating nonconfonnists and rebels
like themselves. Their spirit inspired
the famous “1984” television spot — an
outrageous depiction of the IBM
PC/Microsoft DOS computer stan-
dard as Big Brother — that launched the
Mac (see the sidebar “Why the Mac
Hasn’t Won Over the Masses”). Their
vision was the dominant influence on
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112 February 1 994 MACWORLD
MACINTOSH MYSTIQUE
the Mac and how it developed.
What exactly was that vision? The
Mac team wanted to bring computing to
people who had neither the patience nor
the interest in learning the then-dominant
command-line approach. The team was
determined to create a machine that was
easy and fun as well as functional — a
machine that would augment people’s cre-
ative imaginations. In doing so, the Mac
team fully expected to change the nature
of computing forever. More than that, the
Mac was their act of political rebellion — a
weapon to smash the debilitating drudgery
of computing’s status quo, and by exten-
sion, to create a better world.
At a glance, the Mac seems to justify
such grand ambitions. It stimulates fierce
loyalty and sometimes sparks a childlike
human needs and ways of perceiving.
From the days of IBM punch cards
through the command-line approach, the
human interface was treated as an
appendage added after most basic hard-
ware and software features were frozen.
Starting from human needs “What
was unique about the Macintosh was that
it started with the idea
of the user interface,”
saysjef Raskin, origi-
nal team leader for the
Mac. “Then hardware
and software were de-
signed to support the
human being.” The
breakthroughs of the
Mac interface — graph-
ical icons, screen win-
message has been uncritically adopted by
both Mac fans and much of the general
pubhc, but the reality is different: Many
people donh get it. Are they technophobes,
or is the Mac interface simply not as easy
as the hype suggests?
“My true test here is my mother. I
bought her a Mac about four or five years
ago, and it was con-
founding to her,” says
Paul Brainerd, founder
of Aldus and the father
of desktop publishing.
“Even to this day,
when I go home at
Christmas, my sister
and I always end up
having to go through
the file folders and fig-
I'm still convinced that
the Macintosh empowered more people to write
their senators than it empowered to make bombs
BILL ATKINSON
A PRIMARY DESIGNER OF QUICKDRAW AND MACPAINT
curiosity that pushes people to new
realms of artistic or musical expression.
Others consider the Mac a personal land-
mark. “It has stimulated my mind more
than anything else I’ve come across in
life,” notes Peter Smith, an officer of the
Boston Computer Society’s Mac Group.
“There’s something close to ecstasy in
using die Mac,” adds David Drucker, the
group’s executive director.
But for a moment, step aside fi-om the
Mac’s emotional pull — a force reminis-
cent of the American love affair with the
automobile — and consider the case for
the Mac’s four great promises.
• Has the Mac made good on Apple’s
claims of “radical ease of use”?
• Has it made users more productive,
more efficient, and better at their jobs?
• Has it enhanced the power of average
citizens in relation to governmental or
business institutions?
• Has the Mac changed how society
functions? Has it pushed the world
toward more humane values, as its makers
intended and still suggest? Has the Mac
changed the world?
Here’s a look at the evidence.
Is "Easy” Easy Enough?
The greatest Macintosh idea was that
computers should be designed to fit
dows, pull-down menus, and the mouse
pointing device — all were developed in
other places. “But the Mac was the first
widely available commercial product that
was designed by someone who was inter-
ested in what a human being needs and
wants,” Raskin adds. The Mac team had
seized on something fundamentally
human — that computers wouldn’t truly
be personal until you could communicate
with them using everyday metaphors.
This had the effect of making the Macin-
tosh the most approachable computer.
The Mac’s approachability definitive-
ly shifted computer design toward human
factors. The graphical user interface
(GUI), popularized by the Mac, opened
computing to people unvvilUng to expend
the time and energy to get up to speed on
DOS machines. And although Macs are
only about 1 0 percent of all personal com-
puters now in use, the Mac approach has
defined all other GUIs, especially Win-
dows, which has an installed base more
than double that of Macintosh. “It set a
standard that forced companies like
Microsoft to respond,” says Gordon
Eubanks, CEO of Symantec, a leading
developer of cross-platfonn technologies.
How easy is easy? In the words of
one Apple ad, “If you know how to point,
you already know how to use it.” That
ure out how [she] managed to get the
machine in such a mess. . . . The Mac is
still not that easy. It’s not transparent.”
Research studies on computer inter-
faces published in peer-reviewed journals
of the two major computer societies (the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers, and the Association for Com-
puting Machinery) suggest that a graphi-
cal approach is not inherently easier to
learn or use than a command-line inter-
face. The key factor is the quality of the
particular interface. If this seems implau-
sible, ask some experienced Macintosh
users if they have abandoned icons in
favor of text labels, or if they rely on key-
board shortcuts to avoid the mouse. Have
a hard time remembering DOS com-
mands? Consider that Microsoft Word’s
basic “ribbons” — not counting pull-down
menus, options, and the ruler — use 59
separate icons to represent standard tools.
“A large percentage of people don’t
get it,” acknowledges Steve Costa, execu-
tive director of BMUG. “They don’t get
the icons, they don’t get the mouse. I talk
to them on the phone every day. The Mac
is not an easy computer, it’s just the easi-
est computer.”
Still, that’s a worthy accomplishment,
and Apple’s customers know it. A Mac-
world survey conducted for this article
114 February 1 994 MACWORLD
indicates that 88 percent of Macintosh
users see their machine as easier to use
than other PCs. Only 47 percent of DOS
or Windows users see their machine as
the easiest. This appreciation helps
explain the significandy higher operating-
system brand loyalty among people who
use Macs. Only 1 3 percent of our sample
Macintosh users said they would be just as
happy using another machine, compared
widi 53 percent and 54 percent of DOS
and Windows users, respectively (see the
chart, “Mac, DOS, and Windows Users:
Three Peas in a Pod?”).
Does Approachable Mean
Helpful?
Apple, unlike its competitors, has always
tried to appeal to people who loathed
other computers’ design flaws, which
caused unnecessary work or needless
complexity. Apple posed the Mac as the
solution. The Mac’s friendly approach-
ability and other ease-of-use aspects do
encourage people to take advantage of
their computers.
But in some cases easy tools can actu-
ally impede solutions to some of the very
productivity problems die Mac was sup-
posed to do away with. The Mac’s desk-
top metaphor, for example, was designed
to give users a familiar environment. But
for everj'day, repetitive tasks it sometimes
introduces its own brand of complica-
tions. Consider how the lack of a Rename
command forces users to individually
highlight every file that needs to be
renamed, rather than issue a command to
rename several at once (as you would do
if you were telling a person to do the task).
To copy betuTcn folders, you must
remember a keyboard-mouse combina-
tion (option-drag) that rivals any DOS
keyboard-only approach for obscurity.
Have you ever used the Find command
to locate one file among many with simi-
lar names? (For example, you may code all
your budget files with the prefix “1994
budget.”) Unless you know the precise
name of the file, looking through a
labyrinth of folders usually works faster —
the Find command is intuitive and easy,
but it’s hardly efficient.
Think about the time you’ve spent
clicking on OK in annoying dialog boxes,
such as those in communications pro-
grams that interrupt your work to ensure
the message was received. (“Time for
your meeting. Click ‘OK’ to continue.”)
Useless innovation Tools that
impose inefficient approaches or make
incorrect assumptions are not the only
problem. \^Tiile the Mac GUI makes
many applications more concrete and
vivid, those applications often duplicate
the mistakes of earlier platforms by actu-
ally requiring more effort than the tradi-
tional methods they replace. For example,
can you key in and print out a check from
a personal-finance software program
faster than you can write the check by
hand? Is it worth keying in scores of
addresses and phone numbers from a
Rolodex into a sofhvare program? Since
the dawn of personal computers, they
have been marketed as perfect recipe cat-
alogs, something that a $3 cardholder
accomplishes more efficiently.
And Macintosh users, like their coun-
terparts on other systems — spend count-
less hours learning the latest, supposedly
vital features in frequent software
upgrades, or just getting used to the
quirks of a new interface — slowing down
their real work in the process.
The Mac was conceived and promot-
MACWORLD POLL
Mac, DOS, and Windows Users:
Three Peas in a Pod?
How different are Mac, DOS, and Windows users
in their perceptions of computers and computing?
To answer that question, Macworld conducted a
survey of 200 Macintosh. 100 DOS, and 100 Win-
dows users randomly drawn from the subscribers of
Macworld and PC World magazines.
Apple advertising has often posed the Macintosh
user as a free-thinking nonconformist. And conven-
tional wisdom suggests that the Macintosh is the
machine of choice for people who value strong
graphics tools and ease of use. But our survey sug-
gests that the three groups of users are pretty much
alike in what they consider important in a computer
and in what they see as the influence of their com-
puter operating system on their lives and on the
world as a whole.
The only striking differences came in ease of use
and customer loyalty, where Macintosh users clearly
feel they have the superior brand. Where differ-
ences between Mac, DOS, and \Mndows users
were not statistically significant, we have averaged
the responses."
SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES
Hi Macintosh users Hi DOS users
Buying/Satisfaction Factors
Percent of respondents who feel the follow-
ing factors are very important or critical.
Excellent graphics capabilities
Low price
Compatibility with other hardware/software
Windows users
My Computer and Me
NO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES
Hi Average of all users
Percent of respondents who agree with the fol-
lowing statements about the PC they use.
Easier to use than other PCs
I would be Just as happy using another PC
I would buy same PC again
94%
69%
89%
Percent of respondents who agree with the fol-
lowing statements about the PC they use.
74%
79%
72%
93%
91%
88%
47%
47%
13%
53%
Causes me to enjoy my work more
Has made me more productive
Has improved the quality of my life
Has improved the quality of my work
Causes me to work additional hours
Provided key help In meeting my ureer goals
Empowers me as an individual
Highly increased my productivity
86 %
92%
66%
93%
57%
63%
70%
78%
My Computer and the World
Percent of respondents who agree with the fol-
lowing statement about the PC they use.
Has changed the world for the better
70%
Political Identification
Percent of respondents who identify with a specific political affiliation or viewpoint.
Republican
Independent
27%
37%
• The margin of error is ± 7-9 percent for Madntodi users,
± 9-12 percent for DOS and Windows users, and ± 4-6
percent where all users are combined.
42%
MACWORLD February 1 994 1 1 5
MACINTOSH MYSTIQUE
r
ed as an antidote to other computers’
cumbersome qualities, but it only went
halfway. The Mac made computing
friendlier, and while it’s no worse than
other computers, the Mac is often no bet-
ter either when it comes to inefficient or
impractical features.
The dark side of graphics The xMac’s
justifiably famous facility for graphics has
also been a mixed blessing. To its credit,
the Mac has redefined what is aestheti-
cally acceptable in a multitude of ways.
Business charts, graphs, and presenta-
tions, for example, are vasdy more clear,
colorful, and engaging than ever before.
That’s why it’s particularly frustrating
that Mac product advertising and popu-
lar wisdom so effectively equate comput-
er-generated graphics with higher pro-
ductivity and superior quality — a piece of
misinformation that frequently spoils the
Mac’s graphical contributions. MHiile
business documents are often prettier
these days, prettiness can be distracting
and out of context in a memo or report.
Simple, practical, in-house company
newsletters once took an hour or two to
prepare. With the change in design stan-
dards, they often take a day or two, yet
impart the same information dressed up
by a kind of aesthetic busy\vork.
Pinky Caples, a New York architect
and NYMUG officer, says that architects
in her firm often produce rough sketches
on the Mac to get feedback from col-
leagues — a far slower process than just
jotting them down on a piece of paper.
More important, the Mac’s easy graphics
tools force a false precision on the screen
that is antithetical to fluid, brainstorming-
style thinking. It’s an experience echoed
by many other creative professionals.
Similarly, the Mac’s strikingly easy
graphics tools, when combined with mar-
keting messages that pose graphical solu-
tions to almost any problem, often mes-
merize otherwise thoughtful individuals.
Many a Macintosh user gorges on easy
and fun — but frequently superfluous —
graphic frills.
There’s nothing wrong with a little
fun or experimentation, of course. But the
Macintosh mystique suggests that a pow-
erful tool automatically improves the con-
tent of a person’s work. It doesn’t. “MTien
the Mac first came out, aesthetic stan-
dards actually went down,” one Mac-
using designer told me, echoing the com-
ments of many others.
Knowledge and artistry remain the
active ingredients of superior work. The
Mac is credited with turning people into
artists and publishers; it actually made the
tools sufficiently affordable that more
people — regardless of their skills and abil-
ities — could opt into certain creative
Why the Mac Hasn't Won
By making the purchase of a
Mac tantamount to an act of
sedition, **1984” launched what
became an abiding myth of the
Mac. Reinforced by Apple,
adopted by the Mac's most zeal-
ous fans, and abetted by the
staid, conservative image of IBM,
that myth established the Mac as
a machine, as its famous slogan
suggested, for *'the rest of us” —
creative free thinkers, noncon-
formists, rebels, and agents of
change. “Changing the world
one mind at a time,” another
Apple slogan read. "It was about
time a capitalist started a revolu-
tion,” noted another, showing a
Mac as a bookend to the works
of Marx, Engels, Mao, and Lenin.
The early LaserWriter ads
continued the theme with the
slogan, "All great revolutions
have been started by a single
piece of paper," and showed a
laser-printed business chart
beside the Declaration of Inde-
pendence and the Emancipation
Proclamation.
HAMMERING THE POINT HOME THE MAC INTRODUCTION AD POSED A WOMAN
WARRIOR AGAINST THE IBM/DOS COMPUTING STANDARD’S FORCES OF DARKNESS.
y friends,
each of you
is a single
cell in the
great body
of the
State,'' proclaimed a giant head
projected on a screen facing a
mass of drones resembling con-
centration-camp inmates. "Let
each and every cell rejoice! For
today we celebrate the glorious
anniversary of the Information
Purification Directive. We have
created, for the first time in
all history, a garden of pure
ideology ... We are one peo-
ple. With one will. One resolve.
One cause. "
The totalitarian diatribe is
shattered by a vibrant, athletic
woman who hurls a sledgeham-
mer at the monstrous face. The
screen explodes, and the narrator
takes over: "On January 24,
Apple Computer will announce
Macintosh. And you'll see why
1984 won't be like 1984."
With these words, Apple
committed its greatest blunder.
The famous Mac introduction ad,
aired during the 1984 Super
Bowl, was an ingenious spectacle
of the IBM PC/MIcrosoft DOS
computing standard as an Or-
wellian nightmare. It was meant
to position the Mac as the most
important and successful com-
puter in history. Instead, it ham-
pered Apple's efforts to turn back
the tidal wave of IBM-style PCs.
Radical ease of use The
campaign to sell the Mac was
never one-sided. Ease of use has
been a mantra over the decade of
the product's life, although initial-
ly it took a backseat to the
provocative renegade theme. The
issue was value: you can get
more out of a computer that Is
uniquely easy — even fun — to use.
It was a direct call to the masses
who were frustrated by DOS and
116 February 1 994 MACWORLD
Over the Masses
CP/M or put off by their arcane
commands. This was actually
meant to be the more Important
thrust of Apple's two-pronged
marketing attack. But the attack
failed because it was inherently
contradictory. Ease of use — the
Mac's strongest mass-appeal
argument — was hard to exploit if
the target population was a free-
thinking renegade elite. (Part of
the problem was that when the
Mac was introduced only a hand-
ful of programs worked on it.
Easy to use what?)
The contradictions became
obvious in 1985, when Apple
rolled out the Macintosh Office
campaign with an ad called
“Lemmings." Blindfolded busi-
ness executives in blue suits calm-
ly walked off a cliff while
whistling a dirgelike rendition of
“Hl-ho, hi-ho, It's off to work we
go." Unfortunately, the Macin-
tosh Office was little more than a
concept. Without products, the
Lemmings argument was not just
offensive, it was ludicrous.
The rarefied few Apple fig-
ured that people "who have a lot
to offer but are not techno-
savvy" represented its core mar-
ket, according to original Mac
marketer Joanna Hoffman's in-
clusive definition of “the rest of
us." Instead, the Mac Initially at-
tracted affluent computer en-
thusiasts who wanted something
new and exciting. “We ran out of
such people In February 1985,"
one year after the Mac shipped,
says Chris Espinosa, a member of
the original Mac development
and marketing teams.
More important, Mac buyers
were not buying for medium-to-
large companies. The Mac never
became the dominant force in the
personal computer market, in
large part because “the rest of
us” turned out to be a lot fewer
people than Apple envisioned.
Before long, the Idea that the
Mac was a machine for the rar-
efied few gained widespread
acceptance. Gordon Eubanks,
CEO of Symantec and a pioneer
on both the Mac and DOS plat-
forms, puts it this way: “Would
you rather be the pen that Hem-
OVfR THE EDGE THE 1985 -LEMMINGS' AD DIDN'T SELL MANY PRODUCTS,
BUT IT CEMENTED THE MAC'S REBELLIOUS IMAGE.
Ingway and his friends used in
Paris, or the pen that every busi-
nessman used?" Apple failed to
recognize that businesspeople
tend to be more pragmatic than
Hemingway was. “Steve Jobs, in
particular, thumbed his nose at
corporate America, and Apple
paid the price," Eubanks adds.
Hoffman wistfully reflects on
why the Mac was never
embraced by more than about 10
percent of the buying public:
“We wanted [the Mac] to be
challenging. We wanted It to be
exciting. We wanted it to be
thrilling! And that meant going
after an audience that wasn't a
conformist audience. . . . The
problem is that the vast majority
of the universe are conformists."
Not everyone saw this prob-
lem only In hindsight. Selling the
Mac as “the computer for the
rest of us" was a mistake from
the start, says Bill Gates, chairman
of Microsoft. “We were always
encouraging Apple to tell [the
public] that it's for all of us."
A new approach In 1986,
Apple seemed to abandon the
renegade theme, in favor of
going after Gates’s “all of us."
“The power to be your best"
became the dominant line.
Apple's new ads emphasized indi-
viduality in the time-honored
marketing sense — push every
consumer to think that buying a
mass-produced product makes a
personal statement. The recent
“What's on your PowerBook?"
campaign, for example, featured
colorful personalities showing off
everything from novels to recipes
to business documents. It also
added a strong element of yuppie
practicality.
But Apple marketers could
never quite wean themselves
from the idea that buying the
Mac makes a political statement.
In 1990, Apple compared the
rollout of new Mac models to the
fall of the Berlin Wall. The Apple
catalog still runs a regular section
on “people who changed the
world." Apple recently retread
“1984" and aired it In Russia,
fiere the old regime ostensibly
placed IBM as the nemesis.
p^^^The Mac has fared well in the
’ home and education markets. But
in part due to Apple's mixed
advertising messages, the Mac
WELL-WORN THEME APPLE IS REPLACING REBELLION WITH THE IDEA THAT
YOUR CHOICE OF COMPUTER MAKES A PERSONAL STATEMENT.
simply hasn't yet become a major
competitor of the DOS/Windows
standard in American business.
/MACWORLD February 1 994 1 1 7
MACINTOSH MYSTIQUE
Helds they previously viewed as inaccessi-
ble. (These graphical foibles are equally
characteristic of Windows. But Windows
is essentially a Mac clone. For better and
for worse, graphically oriented comput-
ing is the Mac’s doing.)
Choosing the right tools When peo-
ple choose an incorrect tool, it’s not the
fault of the tool. People are drawn to tjse
the Mac ineffectively or inappropriately
because they’ve come to believe the ads
and enthusiasts who insist that it’s easier.
The Mac is not easier in all cases, but the
marketing campaign that produced such
claims as “if you know how to point, you
already know how to use it” has overpow-
ered diat reality. For all its advantages,
the Mac is still a complex tool that t^es
effort and insight to master.
Did the Mac Empower the
Individual?
Easy access to good tools often means
people will do things — say, Ipok up some
information on an online service or build
a simple database — ^that they would oth-
erwise never have attempted. This every-
day empowerment can be vitally impor-
tant to letting people do better work or
explore new ideas.
But the Mac went beyond this sort of
empowerment, which other computers
also provide (although usually with hard-
er-to-use tools). The Mac partially ful-
filled its third great promise — personal
empowerment — ^with desktop pubHshing
(DTP). Not only did DTP help people
who rely on visual presentation in their
work become more effective, it also
opened countless creative outlets to
teachers, students, nonprofit organiza-
tions, and anyone else who could piill
together a few thousand dollars. “It’s
busted wide open industries that histori-
cally have been controlled by a small
number of gatekeepers,” says Howard
Reingold, editor of Wbok Earth Rtview,
Reingold is right in this respect: DTP
has allowed millions of people to com-
municate in ways that had been practical-
ly impossible for most of them. Typeset-
ting and publication-design services were
far too expensive for most individuals and
small organizations. But for a compara-
tively modest investment of time and
money, the Mac — ^with Aldus PageMak-
er, Adobe’s PostScript page-description
language, and an Apple LaserWriter —
offered the means to create publications
of all kinds more quickly and easily than
even design professionals could do on sys-
tems that cost ten times as much.
More important, DTP, as the most
influential exponent of graphical comput-
ing, changed the computing paradigm.
Just as the pioneering spreadsheet Visi-
Calc made the personal computer a legit-
imate calculation device, DTP based on
Mac technology made the personal com-
puter a legitimate communications
device. “It marked a turning point in the
history of computers,” according to Paul
Brainerd. “The computer came to be
viewed as a tool for creative expression.”
Power of the prei^s? But does indi-
vidual, commercial, and creative empow-
erment imply economic and political
empowerment? Many Mac aficionados
argue that it does. For example, Brainerd
offers the case of Art Agnos, former
mayor of San Francisco, as proof of how
desktop publishing is fundamentally alter-
ing our political process. Agnos was run-
ning behind in the polls and was short on
cash when he used the Mac and Page-
Maker to self-publish an instant political
biography that he then distributed to
every registered voter in the city.
Agnos won. But what really won it
for him? He had the money and person-
nel to print and distribute the book. Such
resources — ^not a Mac and a laser print-
er — ^are the real power of the press. And
these resources are becoming more cen-
trally controlled in large corporations and
the major media than ever before. The
idea of a Mac-wielding David overpow-
ering the corporate communications
Goliath is, for liie most part, just a myth.
Yes, people have been able to use the
Mac to gain an advantage over bigger
competitors who rely on traditional
methods. But such opportunities typical-
ly open up for early adopters in times of
any technological transition — only to
close rapidly as the technology is more
widely adopted. “The Macintosh enabled
my three-person [architecture] office to
compete at the same quality level as
the world-class design houses,” says
NYMUG’s Caples. But the world-class
design houses soon discovered Macs
themselves, she adds, and her firm was
back where it started — ^unable to compete
effectively against large competitors.
Empowering students? The Macin-
tosh has also been credited with playing a
major role in empowering people with
special needs. For example, Macs have
been used to improve the lives of the dis-
abled. But this contribution is hard to dis-
tinguish from the role played by comput-
er technology as a whole. The same is true
in education. The Apple II, in its obsoles-
cent glory, still enjoys a whopping 49 per-
cent market share in the public schools
(the Mac holds about a 12 percent share),
and certainly deserves the most credit for
introducing students to the possibilities of
computing. (That is, excluding Nintendo,
present in some 34 million U.S. homes,
which has arguably exerted more influ-
ence on children’s expectations of com-
puting than Apple and IBM combined.)
No knowledgeable person would sug-
gest that the Apple II is a better educa-
tion machine than the Mac. And there
certainly are many examples of Macs
being used creatively and well in the
schools. But many Apple II’s and IBM
PCs are used creatively and well — and,
unfortunately, a multitude of computers
of all kinds are used so ineptly as to
become deterrents to effective learning
(see “Separate ReaUties,” Macworld, Sep-
tember 1992). Yet through its ads, PR,
and education-research pilot programs,
Apple has persuaded many that the Mac
has made an educational contribution of
m)^c proportions — a belief that is sim-
ply untrue.
Working too hard Before the Mac,
many computer users felt that their
machines were controlling them by forc-
ing them to adhere to a rigid, arcane com-
mand structure. The Mac was developed
and sold on the observation that users
yearned to break free — that they wanted
to become masters of their computers,
and by extension, masters of their lives.
Did the Mac succeed in empowering
users in this way?
On some of the most critical issues,
the Mac falls into the same traps as all per-
sonal computers (and for that matter,
some other standard office machines) —
traps that reduce people’s power to con-
trol their work and manage their time
even as they seem to enjoy increased top-
ical range and greater efficiency.
“In the workplace, the computer is
not necessarily giving people more con-
trol,” says Juliet Schor, an economics pro-
fessor at Harvard University and author
of The Overworked American (Basic Books,
1991). “Like the telephone, fax, and
pager, the computer allows people to get
a certain kind of access to you. Every time
you turn the computer on, your mailbox
is filled up and you’ve got to go through
a lot of mail that you’re not interested in.
Computing has stupendously reduced the
cost of information,” Schor says. “Espe-
cially people in managerial and profes-
sional jobs are finding that part of their
job overload has to do with being inun-
dated with information.”
In our survey, Macworld asked Mac,
DOS, and Windows users whether com-
puter use had increased their personal
productivity; the vast majority of respon-
dents agreed that it had. Then we asked
them to consider this statement: “Because
of my [computer] I actually spend more
time working than I normally would.”
About half of all respondents agreed.
People work longer hours for many
reasons. But as a rapid response to the
118 February 1994 MACWORLD
onslaught of E-mail, fax, and phone mes-
sages becomes an accepted standard,
those messages make work seem more
urgent than ever before.
Many Macintosh users attribute
longer hours, in part, to the seductive
hold of the GUI. The Mac is so easy and
fun that “you find yourself making up rea-
sons to use it,” one enthusiast told me.
He may be an extreme case. But like many
consumer goods that start out as luxuries
and rapidly become necessities, comput-
ing “conveniences” arc a siren call that
makes work seem more compelling.
The Mac is no worse — but no bet-
ter — than other machines in this way. Yet
it was created, in large measure, to over-
come such computing pitfalls.
And developers seem to ignore
ry designer of QuickDraw, MacPaint, and
HyperCard, “the real vision of the Mac
[development] team was a very popular
vision — as in populist.” Did the Mac
become a populist force for change in our
society? To answer that question, let’s
start at the Mac’s birth.
Priced to sell? Apple had originally
hoped to sell the Mac
for about $1000. But
by the time the Mac
was released, it was
way behind schedule
and the Lisa had
bombed, costing Apple
millions. So company
executives decided to
squeeze more revenue
out of the Mac. They
lations. Although there are many Pieter
Folkens out there, there is no concrete
evidence that such worthy ventures are
any more prevalent among Mac users
than they are for users of, say, IBM PCs.
(Any major computer company can pro-
vide such examples.)
Moreover, an analysis on where Macs
are used does not sug-
gest any pronounced
social or political in-
fluence. Apple sells
just about wherever it
can, as any Fortune
500 corporation must.
But unlike its major
competitors, Apple
has consistently iden-
tified the Mac as a
Computing has stupendously
reduced the cost of information. And job overload
has to do with being inundated with information.
JULIET SCHOR
HARVARD UNIVERSITY ECONOMIST
chronic overwork and information over-
load as they attempt to push “empower-
ment” to new heights. The logical exten-
sion of the growing tendency by
information-driven people to plug in con-
stantly is precisely the vision that Apple
presents for a society of PowerBook and
Newton users: constant, instantaneous,
intuitive, “intelligent” access to news,
work, schedules, data, entertainment,
messages, and all that goes with them —
an}^mc, anyplace. A dream of empower-
ment? Certainly for some. For others, it
seems more like a nightmarish electronic
umbilical cord.
The Computer That Changed
the World?
While the Mac has profoundly influenced
personal computing, Apple has always
suggested that the Mac has gone much
further. “When [Apple employees] talk
about changing the world and making a
difference, you can bet they don’t just
mean changing the way we type letters or
making a difference in our factories’ out-
put,” according to an Apple publication.
“They come to Apple because they sense
a chance to do something important.
Something historic.” Independent Mac
developers often echo these words.
According to Bill Atkinson, a prima-
set its price at $2495 (equivalent to $3553
in 1993 dollars). This was a major blow
to the Mac team’s high-minded aspira-
tions; Atkinson called it “a kick in the
teeth.” Well-heeled hobbyists were not
“the rest of us.”
Apple’s rebellious advertising — ^which
has continually reinforced the notion that
buying a Mac is a blow against totalitari-
anism-compounded the pricing error by
alienating a big part of the population that
didn’t identify with such a message but
that might have used the Mac in socially
constructive ways.
Good deeds Despite these less-
than-populist decisions, many people
believe that the Mac appeals more than
other computers to tlie provocative, cre-
ative, social engineers who might be cred-
ited with pushing the world in a positive
direction (meaning populist and socially
liberal to the Mac’s originators). Just as
the many stories about how the Mac
changed individual lives are true, certain
people and groups have done great and
influential things with the help of a Mac.
Environmentalist Pieter Folkens, for
e.xample, uses his PowerBook to digitize
photos of endangered whale species. He
then creates field guides to help fishermen
in Madagascar identify whales and there-
by contribute to research on whale popu-
force that would change the world.
The Mac’s biggest corporate cus-
tomers, however, feature major defense
contractors (such as Lockheed and Mar-
tin Marietta), nuclear weapons labs
(Lawrence Livermore and Rocky Flats),
and financial institutions (J. P. Morgan,
the World Bank) — hardly forces for pop-
ular social change in the rebellious image
of the Mac’s creators and marketers.
Although they acknowledge that the
Mac isn’t an exclusive tool of the idealists
its creators emdsioned, it still has changed
the world for the better, those creators
argue today. “Empowennent is not selec-
tive. You don’t empower someone to do
your agenda,” Atkinson argues. “You
make a tool. You try to design into that
tool capabilities that you think people will
use in a good way. But how people actu-
ally use the tool is really up to them. And
I’m still [convinced] that more people
were empowered to write their senators
about something than were empowered
to make bombs with it. People are basi-
cally good, and giving people power, in
general, is a good thing to do.”
Atkinson expresses a fundamentally
democratic concept echoed in official
Apple statements: Personal computing
can help someone use powerful business
tools, tap into vast libraries of informa-
MACWORLD February 1 994 1 1 9
The Macintosh Religion
T he Macintosh
has stimulated
such devotion,
such excite-
ment, and such
a firm belief in
its importance among many users
that it begs a question: Is there a
Macintosh culture that embodies
the populist ambitions of the
Mac's creators?
The answer lies In
the clubs known as
Macintosh user groups,
or MUGs, which arose
almost from the mo-
ment the Macintosh
shipped; there were
about 1900 such user
groups at last count.
MUGs were formed
because users wanted
to help each other
solve problems. "There
was no Mac priest-
burgeoning Macintosh congre-
gation. "For me, the Mac was
the closest thing to religion I
could deal with," notes a volun-
teer in the New York MUG, In a
comment not atypical for a MUG
volunteer.
Edward Mendelson, a pro-
fessor of English literature at
Columbia University and a con-
tributing editor to PC Magazine,
once compared Mac fanatics to
devout Catholics and PC fanatics
to devout Protestants. "Each
thinks that it is itself the one hope
for salvation," he wrote In the
New Republic "At one end of
the scale Is the ascetic styllte,
who renounces the disorder of
humanity to stare raptly at the
screen. At the other end is the
technological visionary, who
rants endlessly about the utopia
that will be ours when the com-
puter comes into its kingdom."
original Macintosh development
and marketing team. "We [were
building] computers for ourselves
and people like us. With the
Mac, we wanted to expand our
family. It's the same mechanism
that religions use." Apple still
calls its proselytizing marketing
people evangelists. MUGs have
always been churchlike — preach-
ing to the converted, reaching
out to whoever needed help.
And like churches, MUGs offer a
feeling of community. They have
a populist spirit, but in a self-help
sense rather than a social or
political sense.
Unfortunately for Apple,
using a religious approach to
jump-start Interest in the Mac
may have backfired. Few com-
puter users identify with the
dogma of Mac worship. Says
Gordon Eubanks, CEO of Syman-
tec, "When Apple let the Mac
MACINTOSH DEVELOPMENT PIONEER CHRIS ESPINOSA: WE DID TRY TO CREATE THE RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE
hood," explains Steve Costa,
executive director of the largest
Mac user group, based In Berke-
ley, California. But there was a
This phenomenon was no
accident. "We did try to create
the religious experience," says
Chris Espinosa, a member of the
become a religious issue more
than a tool, the consequence was
high visibility and a lot of great
press — but also a limited market."
tion, or even become an electronic Paul
Revere. It can generate new hope in the
most unlikely settings. Atkinson tells a
story, for example, about a vacation he
took in Jamaica. “I went out into one of
the most remote rural areas,” he explains
with a grin growing across his face. “And
there was a waterwheel driving a genera-
tor charging a battery. That battery was
running a Macintosh that was doing
graphics editing and using an Image-
Writer with one of tliese thermal- transfer
ribbons to make T-.shirts!”
But the net impact of computing
across the social landscape makes the
“technology is value-neutral” argument
look like a fuzzy corporate rationalization.
By identifying the Mac with a vaguely lib-
eral social agenda and promoting the Mac
as a tool for change, Apple has implicidy
supported the idea that thousands of
waterwheel-powered Jamaican T-shirt
companies offset the World Bank using its
thousands of Macs to collect loan pay-
ments from Jamaica’s struggling econo-
my; or that a thousand letters to Con-
gress urging a nuclear test ban outweigh
the design of a new warhead.
It doesn’t matter whether you support
“peace through strength” or “no nukes.”
(Our survey, incidentally, suggests that
the political affiliations and inclinations of
Mac, Windows, and DOS users arc virtu-
ally indistinguishable.) The real world-
changing force that computers — includ-
ing the “antiestablishment” Mac — offer
lies in the hands of economic, political,
and militaiy heavyweights. Simply giving
people a tool does not affect the balance
of power. Even if every person in the
world had a Mac, this would still be true.
The Macworld sur\^ey suggests that
while today’s Macintosh users believe the
Mac did change the world, so do DOS
users think DOS computers changed the
world, and Windows users think Win-
dows changed the world. But in all three
cases, this is change in a minor key. The
automobile altered society in fundamen-
tal ways; the automatic transmission did
not. Similarly, computers changed the
world; the Mac did not.
Shedding the Illusions
The grandiose Macintosh mystique once
energized the people who created.
bought, and loved the Mac. Now those
absorbed in the mystique have trouble
distinguishing between what serves them
well and what fails them. And many peo-
ple are so put off by the e.xtremist illusions
that they never c.xpcrience the Mac’s
engaging reality. That reality represents
a remarkable technological vision, but too
fervent a belief in the Mac clouds the
vision. Recent ads and comments from
Apple marketers suggest that even Apple
is trying to move beyond the Mac mys-
tique. It has begun to promote the Mac
for what it really is — not our savior, not
the pivotal technolog)^ of our times, not
the key to a better life, but a smart choice
to enhance your personal productivity
and have some creative fun in the process.
The power to he your best? Occa-
sionally. The power to escape the mun-
dane? Often. Maybe that’s enough for any
computer, m
Senior associate features editor CHARLES FILLER'S
most recent book is The Fail-Safe Society:
Community Defiance and the End of American
Technological Optimism (University of California
Press, 1993).
120 February 1 994 MACWORLD
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16 h i g h - s p e e d p r i n I e r s
Network printing is the forgotten child of laser printers and net-
work operating systems. It’s much easier — and more glamorotis —
to talk about these two technologies separately. With networks, the
hot topics include file sharing and servers; with printers, high-res-
olution output and faster engines. But the worlds of these two tedi-
nologies do come together: ironically, networks were created with
printer sharing in mind. ^ Workgroups today demand a lot more
from printers than mere device sharing. Besides providing faster
throughput, network printers must distinguish between different
jobs and sort them accordingly, notify network users when a job is
done, and indicate whpn the printer is out of paper or low on toner.
These devices must even remember where they left off on a job if
they run out of paper while printing it. Printers such as the Data-
jby Cene Steinberg products LZR2080 and the Com-
paq Pagemarq 20 come with multiple paper trays botii to handle
the extra load that workgroups create and to give users the option
of reserving a tray or two for special paper like letterhead or legal-
size paper and envelopes. Additionally, printers such as the New-
Gen Turbo PS/660B and the GCC SelectPress 600 accept ledger
or tabloid (11 -by- 17-inch) paper. With multiple users, some of
whom may have a computer other than a Macintosh, the printer
needs to manage several jobs at once — ^and it may need to speak
Hewlett-Packard’s PCL page-descrip-
tion language along with the standard
Adobe PostScript or third-party Post-
Script emulation. Software innovations
such as QMS’s Crown Architecture and
HP’s autosyntching scheme help printers
change between these page-description
languages with relative ease. A big sur-
prise this year is that Apple is joining the
fray with its LaserWriter Pro 630 and
810, both of which have PCL emulation
on their controller boards. Multiple ports
adorn the back panels of the output
devices reviewed here, with LocalTalk,
Centronics parallel (for DOS and Win-
dows PCs), and RS-232 serial being the
most common. The printers we tested,
with the exception of the Okidata
OL850, also come with Ethernet either
as an option or built in.
Anew wrinkle in the multiuser, mul-
tiprotocol saga this year is Dataproducts’
Virtual Printer Technology (VPT),
which allows a network manager to cre-
ate several profiles for a single printer,
each offering different capabilities; for
example, one might print on letterhead
only (see “Virtual Printer Technolog37”).
Another big story in network print-
ing has been the migration to higher res-
olutions. Almost all the printers reviewed
here produce at least 600-dots-per-inch
output, thanks largely to the proliferation
of 600-dpi engines. Apple’s LaserWriter
Pro 810, Compaq’s Pagemarq 20, Data-
products’ LZM080, and LaserMaster’s
Unity 1200XL-O, sport even higher res-
olution. Although the output from these
devices is good, our test results show that
higher resolution doesn’t always translate
into superior printing quality.
Finally, workgroup printers have be-
come easy to afford. Not many years ago,
124 February 1994 MACWORLD
WORKGROUP PRINTERS
a 300-dpi, 8-pages-per-minute PostScript
laser printer would set you back $5000 or
$6000. The 1 2 Level 2 PostScript print-
ers Macworld Lab tested cost from $3500
to $4000 on average, with the least expen-
sive being the GCC Eclipse 8 at $1799.
The Best of Both Worlds
Multiplatform networks used to give end
users and network managers headaches.
Switching between PCL and PostScript
presented a problem: a Macintosh user
would send jobs to a printer after a PC
user had printed a job, and the Mac job
wouldn’t print. Or the Chooser wouldn’t
show the desired printer because you or
one of your co workers had failed to flip
the correct DIP switch on the printer.
Today emulation switching isn’t so
bothersome, particularly if the PC users
work in Microsoft Windows. Many of the
printers here, such as the Compaq Page-
marq 20 and the Dataproducts LZR2080,
ship with Windows printer drivers. Many
Windows applications speak PostScript,
too, so Mac and Windows users mostly
work in the same page-description lan-
guage. For networks whose PC users
work only in DOS, however, automatic
emulation switching has made s^vitching
between PCL and PostScript easier. With
automatic emulation switching, the print-
er determines whether a file is PostScript
or PCL and then switches to that emula-
tion to print the document. The HP
LaserJet 4M and 4Si MX, the LZR2080,
and the Pagemarq 20 are among the
printers offering this capability.
The printers we tested cope well with
simultaneous LocalTalk and parallel con-
nections. They accept the jobs on a first-
come-first-served basis.
Apple’s LaserWriter Pro 630 offers a
different scheme. The printer’s ports are
all simultaneously active, so the 630 can,
for instance, accept input through its
EtherTalk and RS-232 ports. Also, each
port is configured for a specific emula-
tion — the EtherTalk and LocalTalk ports
accept PostScript documents only, while
a network manager can configure the RS-
232 or Centronics ports to accept PCL
input. You can change this configuration
at the rear of the printer using two push
buttons, or you can use the Mac version
of the printer utility software.
Two devices — the GCC SelectPress
600 and the Eclipse 8 — don’t incorporate
emulation switching. Texas Instruments’
MicroLaser Pro 600 and MicroLaser XL
Turbo require that users change the emu-
lation on the printer’s control panel.
The Ethernet Connection
If you have a large network or print a
steady stream of documents, consider a
printer that offers Ethernet connections.
Most of the printers here offer it as an
option ($300 to $400) or as standard
equipment. It’s a good investment, par-
ticularly if many of your users print large
documents or documents with multiple
fonts or graphics. Of course, if you don’t
have a Mac Centris or Quadra, which
have Ethernet as a standard feature, you
MW
LAB
Testing Workgroup Printers
Multiple Fonts Single Font
MacDraw Pro Freehand 3.1
PageMaker 5.0 TrueType
Best result In each category
for each test. Times are In seconds.
Shorter bars are better. Products
are listed In order of overall
performance for each category,
from fastest to slowest.
300-dpi Printers
QMS 1725 Print System
Print speed for a
typical 7-page
Microsoft Word
5.0 document
with a variety of
fonts, sizes, and
styles.
Compaq PageAAarq 20 -
Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 4Si MX
IBM 4039 16L*
Texas Instruments MicroLaser XL Turbo
QMS 860 Print System
Dataproducts L2R2080
Apple LaserWriter Pro 630*
Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 4M
NewGen Systems TurboPS/660B
GCC Technologies Eclipse 8
Qkidata OL850
400-dpi Printers
Compaq Pagemarq 20
Dataproducts LZR2080
600-dpi Printers
Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 4SI MX
Compaq Pagemarq 20
Texas Instruments MicroLaser Pro 600
LaserMaster Unity 1200XL-Q*
QMS 1725 Print System
QMS 860 Print System
GCC Technologies SelectPress 600
Lexmark IBM 4039 16L
Apple LaserWriter Pro 630
Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 4M*
NewGen Systems TurboPS/660B
800-dpl Printers
Dataproducts L2R2080
LaserMaster Unity 1200X0*
Print speed for a
20- page Word 5.0
document with
double-space, 12-
point Courier text
in plain, bold, and
italic.
Print speed for a
complex drawing
with few special
effects, over 2000
simple objects,
and several lines
of Helvetica text.
Print speed for a
complex graphic
with special Post-
Script effects. Our
illustration included
nonlinear blends
and B6zler curves.
Print speed for a
4-page newsletter
with several fonts,
a MacPaint image,
and 3 gray-scale
TIFF images.
Print speed for a
1 -page Word 5.0
document with 4
TrueType fonts in
various sizes.
'Printers were tested with image-enhancement features on.
126 February 1 994 MACWORLD
VIRTUAL PRINTER TECHNOLOGY
may have to buy an Ethernet card for all
the Macs on your network.
Ethernet is much faster than Local-
Talk. Its data-transfer rate is 10 megabits
per second, while LocalTalk’s is 0.234
Mbps. Some companies might use Local-
Talk to connect users to a printer with
the idea of saving money; however, the
time spent waiting for documents to print
will probably offset any cost savings. Our
testing showed that Ethernet outper-
formed LocalTalk by 10 to 30 percent —
and this was on a one-to-one network
(one machine, one printer). On a large
network, Ethernet has a data-transfer rate
that is about 400 percent faster than that
of LocalTalk. In printing, the speed
advantage is much lower since print speed
is determined by the processors on the
controller board inside the printer as well
as the print engine. But when traffic is
heavy — as it would be on a large net-
work — Ethernet gives you more band-
width to play with than LocalTalk.
PostScript's Stamp
Another boon to cross-platform printing
is PostScript, a platform-independent
page-description language. Adobe began
shipping Level 2 PostScript in 1991,
though Apple and Adobe didn't ship the
printer driver for another two years. Of
the printers Maavorld tested, 1 2 have a
Level 2 interpreter (see “Level 2 Post-
Script Explained”). All the printers — even
models that offer only Level 1 Post-
Script — performed reasonably well with
the Level 2 driver.
As a quick test of how the new driver
affects printing performance, we ran the
Apple LaserWriter Pro 630 and HP 4Si
MX through our standard test suite twice,
once with the Level 1 driver and again
with the Level 2 driver. On complex doc-
uments, we saw an improvement of 12 to
more than 30 percent. The 4Si MX was
actually slightly slower with the Level 2
driver in our TrueType print test, but was
otherwise faster overall.
We experienced no problems re-
sulting from PostScript emulators like
Microsoft’s Truelmage or Phoenix Tech-
nology’s PhoenixPage, and these clones
offer no price advantage over a true
Adobe PostScript device.
Few clone printers had any problems
handling the text or graphics in the doc-
uments we used in our test suite. So users
can concentrate instead on factors such
as printing speed and resolution.
One caveat to purchasing a clone: as
Adobe refines its PostScript software, the
clones may need hardware updates. For
example, QMS released a ROM revision
to address problems in printing files cre-
ated with Adobe Illustrator 5.0.
I n a Macintosh-only net-
work, printing is straight-
forward and uneventful
thanks to an excellent
printer driver from Adobe
and Apple. Unfortunately,
it is a different story on an
enterprisewide network of
heterogeneous systems
that communicate in various protocols
over one or more network architectures.
Since few standards are available, print-
er sharing is usually less than efficient.
A primary concern of network
printer users is that they don't know
which emulation is active at a given
time. Automatic switching between
PostScript and PCL 5, while mostly reli-
able thanks to emulation-sensing tech-
nology, still occasionally fails to switch
to the appropriate format.
Virtual Printer Technology (VPT),
Dataproducts' proprietary technology
for printer management in an enter-
prisewide network environment, Is the
most intelligent solution to date for
solving problems associated with print-
ing on a multiplatform network.
VPT allows a network manager to
create up to 64 profiles for a single
printer. These profiles are treated by the
network as though they were real print-
ers, and users can see and select them
from the Chooser.
VPT is convenient for network
managers because they can configure
VPT-equipped printers (including the
new Apple LaserWriter Pro 810) from a
remote terminal. The 64 virtual person-
alities also help managers alleviate many
small printing problems users face. One
printer selection might be Virtual Print-
er Letterhead, which prints In portrait
mode at 600 dpi in Apple EtherTalk pro-
tocol in PostScript format using paper
from the letterhead tray. By selecting
the appropriate virtual printer, the user
can safely assume that the output will
be in the expected format.
Another problem associated with
network printing is the Inadequacy of
some application drivers.
For example, some older
DOS applications support
only a single paper tray, a
300-dpl laser printer, or
even a lowly dot matrix
printer. With VPT, different
configurations are preset to
take advantage of different
printing scenarios; all you need to do
is select the virtual printer of choice in
the network.
A future version of VPT will feature
configuration authorization. Network
managers can specifically authorize
access to a certain group of users and
exclude others. For instance, a manager
can force a group of users who often
print large documents to print to the
profile for a recycled-paper printer to
help cut supply costs. A manager can
also set print-queue priorities so that,
for example, the boss never has to wait
In line to print.
VPT will eventually include resource
accounting. This will give a network
manager information on the total
resource consumption for each user.
The network manager can then decide
whether to charge departments or users
for paper, toner, and general printer
use. The manager can also use the
information to intelligently plan future
network expansion.
Another planned feature is the abil-
ity to save the context of each virtual
printer. For instance, certain users or
workgroups may require certain down-
loadable fonts or electronic forms to be
resident in the printer throughout the
day. By saving that information along
with the emulation settings and paper
tray and resolution information, there
will be no need to resend the Informa-
tion every time the printer configuration
changes.
To most users of a Mac-only net-
work, VPT might not mean much. How-
ever, for anyone managing or using an
enterprisewide network, VPT represents
a big improvement.— Mark Huriow
Is It the Engine or the Controller?
Workgroup printers commonly advertise
engine speeds of 8 to 20 ppm. If you
are printing simple documents with one
or two resident fonts, or multiple copies
of the same document, you might ac-
tually achieve those speeds. But when
your document includes multiple down-
loadable fonts, complex art, and half-
tones, you need to look at how efficiendy
the controller crunches data to build a
page. Fortunately, printers with high-
speed engines tend to have high-powered
RISC processors.
Workgroup printers may offer other
features to speed up performance, too.
MACWORLD February 1 994 1 2 7
Surveying Workgroup Printers
Maximum Best
Toll-Free
Engine Speed
Engine
Resolution
PostScript
Company
Product
Phone
Phone
List Price
(In ppm)
Manufacturer
(in dpi)
Level
Apple Computer
LaserWriter
408/996-1010
800/776-2333
$2529
8
Canon
600 X 600
2
Pro 630
LaserWriter
408/996-1010
800/776-2333
$4899
20
Fuji/Xerox
800 X 800
2
Pro 810
Compaq Computer
Pagemarq 20
713/378-8820
800/345-1518
$3599 ^
20
Fuji/Xerox
800 X 400
2
Dataproducts
LZR2080
818/887-8000
800/334-3174
$4995-$5495
20
Fuji/Xerox
800 X 800
2
GCC Technologies
Eclipse 8
617/275-5800
800/422-7777
$1799
8
Okidata
300 X 300
2
SelectPress 600
617/273-5800
800/422-7777
$4499
8
Toshiba
600x600
2
Hewlett-Packard
LaserJet 4M
O
800/752-0900
$2399
8
Canon
600 x 600
2
LaserJet 4Si MX
O
800/752-0900
$5499
17
Canon
600 X 600
2
LaserMaster
Unity 1200XL-0
612/944-9330
800/950-6868
$8995
8
Toshiba
1200X1200'
1
Lexmark International
IBM 4039 16L
O
800/426-2468
$3399
16
Lexmark
600X600
1
NewGen Systems
Turbo PS/660B
714/641-8600
800/756-0556
$4995
8
Canon
600 x 600'
1
Okidata
OkidaU OL850
609/235-2600
800/654-3282
$1999
8
Oki Electric
300X300
1
QMS
860 Print System
205/639-4400
800/523-2696
$4595
8
Canon
600 X 600
2
1725 Print System
205/639-4400
800/523-2696
$4999
17
Canon
600X600
2
Texas Instruments
MicroLaser Pro 600
O
800/527-3500
$2198
8
Sharp
600 X 600
2
MicroLaser XL Turbo
O
800/527-3500
$3649
16
Sharp
300X300
2
• = yes; O = no. Technical-support ratings are based on a series of calls made to each company by Macworld staffers (posing as customers) to gauge the accessibility, helpfulness,
and we call only those companies whose products Macworld Lab tests. * Estimated street price, base configuration. * Manufacturer's claim. ^ Upgradable to 1200 by 600 dpi for
LEVEL 2 POSTSCRIPT EXPLAINED
I n 1991, manufacturers of PostScript
printers discovered a new buzzword
— Level 2 PostScript It took another
couple of years for Adobe and Apple to
finally release a printer driver to support
this new version of the PostScript page-
description language.
The new PostScript improves most
aspects of document processing, espe-
cially on printers designed to take
advantage of Level 2.
The biggest change you'll see is the
use of custom PPD (printer page
description) files, which let you cus-
tomize the driver to the requirements of
your printer. For example, you can turn
image-enhancement features on and
off, switch printer-resolution settings,
and switch paper trays, in most applica-
tions, these changes can be made from
the Print dialog box.
Level 2 boosts background printing
speed between 10 and 30 percent.
Also, PostScript's memory-manage-
ment techniques now allow the print-
er's CPU to tap memory from a single
memory pool (rather than divide it for
separate chores, as is done with Level
1); this should reduce out-of-memory
messages when you print documents.
The current Level 2 drivers do have
a few drawbacks. There are some com-
patibility problems with older applica-
tions that are documented in the Read
Me files from Adobe and Apple. Also,
printing Is a two-pass process, which
doesn't help speed up document pro-
cessing If you prefer to work with back-
ground printing inactive.
Some of the promised Level 2
enhancements didn't make it into the
first releases of the software; for exam-
ple, there Is no forms-and-pattern-
caching, which would allow data
describing a form or pattern to be
stored in the printer's RAM for rapid
reuse. Other features, such as on-the-
fly compression and decompression of
documents, require updates to the
application from which you are printing.
Many of the newest printers ship
with the Level 2 driver. Adobe Includes
the new driver software with Its CD-
ROM versions of Illustrator 5.0, the
Type On Call 3.0 CD ROM, and Acro-
bat. Apple distributes LaserWriter 8.0
on AppleLink and the major online ser-
vices. Aldus Includes LaserWriter 8.0
with PageMaker 5.0 (which requires the
Level 2 driver to print properly), and
Frame Technology Includes the driver
with FrameMaker 4.0. The drives can
be purchased separately with manuals
for $24.95 from Adobe and Apple.
For instance, using QMS’s Crown Archi-
tecture, the QMS 860 and 1725 Print
System printers employ a multitasking
scheme that divides the information on
the page into compressed blocks of data
instead of dealing with the entire page in
a single step. According to QMS, this
method allows the printer to compile the
elements of the page, rasterize it, and hold
the data in RAM imtil the printer is ready
to output the document. This processing
can continue even as another page is
being printed. And if the paper runs out
or jams, you can print the missing pages
without resending the entire job.
HP’s 4Si MX printer uses a Post-
Script job-overlap feature that begins
processing a second document while the
first is printing. Multiple frame buffers
allow the printer to process a PostScript
job while a PCL job prints or vice versa.
For larger, more complex network setups,
this scheme will automatically switch
between multiple network operating sys-
tems. The impact of these technological
goodies showed up in our lab tests, where
the 4Si MX processed 600-dpi documents
(with four times as much data) at a speed
close to that of the faster 300-dpi mode.
Two of the high-power clone print-
ers, NewGen’s Turbo PS/660B and
LaserMaster’s Unity 1200XL-O, did not
perform well in terms of processing pages.
LaserMaster’s TurboGray feature pro-
duced nice-looking halftones and gray-
scale art, but it took a sizable toll in speed:
it was 108 seconds slower at printing a
128 February 1 994 MACWORLD
Manufacturer
RAM
All Ports Active/
SCSI Port for
Standard Paper
Maximum
Technical-
of PostScript
TrueType
(base model/
Emulation
Font Hard
Tray Capacity
Paper Size
Support
Interpreter
Rasterizer
maximum)
Switching
Drive
Ethernet
(in sheets)
(in inches)
Tested
Rating
Adobe
•
8MB/32MB
•
built in
250
B.5 X 14
•
acceptable
Adobe
•
BMB/16MB
•
built in
3 trays (250 each)
11 X 17
O
acceptable
Adobe
•
4MB/20MB
• (built in)
built in
3 trays (500 each)
11 X 17
•
acceptable
Adobe
O
BMB/32MB
•
optional
3 trays (250 each)
11 X17
•
poor
Phoenix Technology
•
2MB/6MB
•/o
O
built in
250
B.25X14
•
acceptable
Phoenix Technology
•
BMB/16MB
•/o
• (built in)
built In
250
11 X 17
•
acceptable
Adobe
o
6MB/32MB
O
optional
2 trays (100/250)
B.5 X 14
•
poor
Adobe
o
10MB/26MB
O
built in
2 trays (500 each)
B.5 X 14
•
poor
Microsoft
•
32MB/4BMB
•
built in
250
12X19.5
•
unacceptable
Phoenix Technology
0
4MB/16MB
O
optional
500
B.5 X 14
•
unacceptable
Weitek
o
12MB/96MB
•
optional
250
11 X17
•
unacceptable
Adobe
o
2MB/4MB
o
O
200
B.5 X 14
•
unacceptable
QMS
0
12MB/32MB
•
optional
2 trays (250/100)
11 X 17
•
unacceptable
QMS
0
BMB/32MB
•
optional
2 trays (500 each)
B.5 X 14
•
unacceptable
Adobe
•
6MB/22MB
o
optional
500
B.5 X 14
•
poor
Adobe
o
2.5MB/10.5MB
o
optional
200
B.5 X 14
•
poor
and accuracy of the company’s support technicians. Macworld uses a point system, incJuding bonuses and demerits, to derive the final rating. Ratings are for companies, not individual products,
$649. ° Accomplished by software.
N orths
hadd
in Ne
Comparing Output Although there is a vast difference in quality between output from a Linotronic
2400-dpi film-image device used in service bureaus (left), and "imagesetter-quality" output from devices such
as the LciserMaster Unity 1200XL-0 (middle), the 1200-dpi output from the LaserMaster printer is barely dis-
tinguishable from the HP LaserJet 4M at 600 dpi (right.).
N orthw
had d(
in Ne
N orthw
had d
in Ne
FreeHand 3.1 document than the HP
LaserJet 4Si iVIX on average (see “Testing
Workgroup Printers”).
Our tests showed no significant speed
improvements when we doubled the
memory in a representative set of print-
ers. In theory, it should speed up the
printing process — and it does when you
need to print a wider area on a page, han-
dle a larger paper size, or download more
fonts direedy to the printer before begin-
ning a job. But generally, you can func-
tion perfectly well with the RAM that
comes with these printers.
Tell y\Ae, How Does It Look?
Above all, the printers reviewed here
make your documents look good. Devices
like New'Gen Systems’ Turbo PS/660B
can output true 600-dpi documents that
look great to the naked eye.
The phrase “true 600-dpi output”
means the engine itself is capable of print-
ing 600 dots per inch horizontally and
vertically. Many manufacturers are mak-
ing 600-dpi engines these days — Canon,
Fuji/Xerox, Lexmark, Sharp, and Toshi-
ba among them. Some printers are capa-
ble of more than 600 dpi, but this isn’t
always accomplished by the engine. Soft-
ware instructions incorporated into a
printer’s firmware help interpolate the
output, in effect making a 600-dpi print-
er simulate the higher output. Such a
scheme is used by LaserMaster as part of
its TurboRes technology. But despite its
claim of being a 1200-by- 1200-dpi print-
er, the Unity 1200XL-0 turns out to
produce 1200-by-600-dpi output, accord-
ing to our inquiry of the printer’s Post-
Script specifications.
With a few exceptions, for e.xample,
the Compaq Pagemarq 20, the text out-
put of the various high-resolution models
was surprisingly similar in quality. The
1200-dpi Unity 1200XL-0 was barely
distinguishable from 600-dpi products in
text output (see “Comparing Output”),
although its graphics perfor-
mance, particularly with the
TurboGray feature enabled,
was very good.
In judging output quality,
we ignored small differences.
Reproduction may become
fuzzier as toner is spent, and
you might notice minor variations in out-
put density as you switch from one toner
cartridge to another. Paper quality also
affects output quality.
Halftone performance was another
story. Many of the printers, even those
using image-enhancement techniques,
such as the HP LaserJet 4M, showed
noticeable banding on gray-scale images.
This effect was especially visible on
blends, images showing a gradual increase
in shade. The GCC SelectPress 600 and
the LaserMaster Unity 1200XL-0 repro-
duced this sort of image surprisingly well.
Getting Up and Running
Setup for most of these printers is rel-
atively easy and straightforward, but
should you need a hand, some manufac-
turers, such as HP, include a card con-
taining printer setup shortcuts and infor-
mation about status displays.
While the other printers we tested
include on-board displays and switches,
the LaserWriter Pro 630 is limited to four
side-mounted status fights that indicate
processing status, when toner is low,
when the printer is out of paper, and
whether there’s a paper jam. Several
MACWORLD February 1 994 1 2 9
WORKGROUP PRINTERS
BEHIND OUR TESTS
Macworid Lab used sev-
eral real-world documents de-
signed to show printer speed and,
to a lesser extent, the computer's
ability to handle various printing
tasks (see "Testing Workgroup
Printers"). A faster computer like
the Quadra 800 or 840AV would
have yielded faster results than
those shown by our test machine —
a Centris 650 with 8MB of mem-
ory and an internal Quantum
230MB hard drive.
We used System 7.1 and the
new LaserWriter driver, version 8.0,
for our testing. We used the PPD
files supplied with the printers.
Background printing and spooling
were inactive.
To assess print quality, we ex-
amined the output with the un-
aided eye as well as with an 8X
magnifying loupe. We checked
how well each machine printed
solid areas, and we looked for
jagged type edges in larger sizes,
filled-in characters in small sizes,
and differences in gray-scale capa-
bilities. We also printed the same
file to a Linotronic Imagesetter for
comparison.
We also examined how a cou-
ple of representative printers han-
dled printing on a peer-to-peer
EtherTalk network versus how they
performed on a peer-to-peer Ap-
pleTalk network. We also repeated
our speed tests on a couple of
printers using LaserWriter driver
7.1.1 instead of 8.0 to determine
the performance Improvement of
the new d river. ^Macworid Lab test-
ing supervised by Mark Huiiow and
Danny Lee
printers, such as the Pagemarq 20, have a
control panel on the front with a digital
display and buttons you can use to con-
figure and set up the printer. Others, like
the LaserWriter Pro 630, can be config-
ured with utility software. Apple’s printer
accessory kits deserve special praise
because they include installation disks for
Mac and Windows along with a single
manual that makes setup easier.
Laser printers tend to be reliable
products, seldom needing maintenance
other than replacing toner and adding
paper. But when you need support and
service, you’re better off getting it from
your dealer. No vendor that we tested
received a technical-support rating high-
er than acceptable. Dataproducts (which
outsources its technical support and took
several days to answer our questions),
Texas Instruments, and — the big sur-
prise — HP all received a rating of poor. If
you choose a model from a company that
gives poor technical support, it would be
a good idea to find a dealer with a reputa-
tion for good service after the sale.
The Envelope, Please
Overall, most of these printers performed
decently in our tests. One exception was
the Okidata OL850, which scored near
the bottom of the list in virtually all
tests, with slow performance and below-
average print quality.
On the upside, the HP 4Si MX gar-
nered the top rating for high-speed print-
ing. But if you need 1 1 -by- 17-inch paper
capability, the Compaq Pagemarq 20 is an
ideal choice — that is, if you don’t mind
its less-than-stellar output quality. The
engine moves the paper through so fast
that the toner smears a bit, leaving specks
of toner on the page along with your type.
We recommend that you also take a look
at Dataproducts’ LZ^OSO, GCC Tech-
nologies’ SelectPress 600, and QMS’s 860
Print System, all of which offer reason-
ably high-caliber printing and tabloid-
paper capability but have somewhat slow-
er output speeds.
In addition, you should consider the
new Apple LaserWriter Pro 810. Apple
licensed the Dataproducts LZR2080
printer to use as the basis for the 810, so
the two are essentially the same. As with
the LZR2080, the 810 uses Virtual Print-
er Technology.
If you want to produce a tabloid page
with crop marks, your only choice from
this lineup is the pricier LaserMaster
1200XL-O, which accepts 12-by-19.5-
inch paper and thus can print an 1 1-by-
1 7-inch spread with crop marks. But it
exacts a hefty price: $8995, about $4000
to $5000 more than printers that just use
1 l-by-17-inch paper.
If your needs are more modest, the
best price/performance contenders are
the Apple LaserWriter Pro 630 and the
HP LaserJet 4M. They rated so close in
performance that you could choose sole-
ly on features. The Apple printer is soft-
ware controlled, with superior status
displays and better manuals. Network
managers can set up the Hewlett-Packard
model through a convenient set of push-
button controls on the front panel —
despite the less-than-readable instruc-
tions HP provides. Both printers provide
good-quality text and graphics reproduc-
tion. The HP 4M’s text reproduction may
be somewhat cleaner with Resolution En-
hancement Technology active, and the
Apple printer’s graphics reproduction is
slighdy better.
None of these printers represent new,
innovative technolog}% just a gradual re-
finement of controller, engine, and toner
designs to give you better performance at
lower prices than older models. While
we can probably expect even higher-
resolution output and speedier printers
over the next year, at progressively lower
prices, you can be assured that this crop of
workgroup printers will offer reliable per-
formance for years to come, m
GENE STEINBERG spends a lot of time on America
Online (as AFA GeneS) helping harried Macintosh
users solve their problems. He also contributed
several chapters to David Pogue and Joseph
Schorr's Macworld's Madr)tosh Seaets (IDG Books
Worldwide, 1993).
WORKGROUP PRINTERS
We evaluated 16 workgroup
ISilSim printers and came up with 3
favorites. Our decision is based on overall per-
formance and value.
High-Speed Printing
Hewlett-Packard UserJet 4Si AAX The 4Si MX
combines high speed, efficient operation,
and very good output quality to edge
out last year's Editors' Choice (“Work-
group Printers," January 1993), the
Compaq Pagemarq 20, as the best all-
around performer among the high-speed
devices. Company: Hewlett-Packard. List
price: $5499.
Price/Performance
Apple's LaserWriter Pro 630 Part of a 600-dpl
tandem we selected as the best buys, the
LaserWriter Pro 630 has good-quality
output and decent speed. It also provides
better graphics performance than the
. LaserJet 4M. Company: Apple Computer.
Ust price: $2529.
Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 4M The other half
of the tandem, the LaserJet 4M also
offers high-quality output and good
performance. But It gets the nod over the
LaserWriter Pro 630 In the area of type
quality. HP's Resolution Enhancement
Technology provides slightly sharper text
output at 600 dpi. Either printer Is a good
choice, however. Company: Hewlett-
Packard. List price: $2399.
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Products for Powering Up Photoshop
G R-\PIIICS PROFESSION/VLS HAD
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Among the most recent product an-
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• DayStar Digital has announced its
Photoshop Automation Technology
(PA'F), which uses .AppleScript to auto-
mate and batch-process repetitive, time-
consuming Photoshop functions.
DayStar’s entry-level product using
this technology, PhotoMatic ($279; due
to ship December 15), consists of three
modules — PhotoLocal, PhotoRemote,
and PhotoVV^atcher — plus a PhotoMatic
e.xtension, which lets you record any
number of Photoshop manipulations as
they’re performed and save the script, or
“recording,” which you can play back and
apply to other images. PhotoMatic
recordings can be used as is, or edited
with AppleScript.
DayStar Digital's PhotoMatic lets you automate Pho-
toshop functions by adding a special menu to Pho-
toshop for recording your actions (rear). To apply a
recording, drag and drop It — along with the images
being edited — to the PhotoMatic icon (front).
PhotoLocal lets you apply any
recordings to any of your images simply
by dragging the appropriate recordings
and image files onto the PhotoMatic icon.
PhotoRemote performs the same func-
tions as PhotoLocal, but it enables you to
offload all your image processing to other
Macs on the network as well. Photo-
Watcher lets you run recordings in the
background.
PhotoMatic Remote has all the func-
tionality of PhotoMatic but also provides
remote-control capabilities, allowing you
to launch Photoshop and record scripts
from a remote Mac as well as use any
resources on the remote Mac. All the
work is done in the original high-resolu-
tion files on the remote machine, while
you see a low-res version of the process on
your Mac. (At press time, pricing for Pho-
toMatic Remote had not been deter-
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of 1994.) DayStar Digital, 404/967-2077,
800/967-2077.
• Adobe’s AV DSP Power Plug-in,
for the AV Macs, speeds up Photoshop 2
to 7 times by sending 18 filters and func-
tions — including Unsharp Mask, Gauss-
ian Blur, and RGB-to-CMYK conver-
sions — directly to the AV Macs’ digital
signal processor (DSP). Due to ship by
the end of 1993, the plug-in will come
free with Photoshop 2.5.1 and will be
available to current 2.5 and 2.5.1 users
for a $10 shipping and handling fee.
Adobe Systems, 408/986-6555 interna-
tional; 800/642-3623 in the United
States, 800/648-2846 in Canada.
• RasterOps said it would begin ship-
ping its Horizon 24 QuickDraw acceler-
ator and dual-DSP graphics subsystem in
December. Horizon 24 features a 32-pin
134 February 1 994 MACWORLD
ASIC dedicated exclusively to accelerat-
ing QuickDraw routines and tasks, and a
memory buffer, expandable up to 256MB,
for offloading large graphics files from
your Mac’s memory for faster processing.
The board also includes a 128-bit data
path for improved image access and pro-
cessing speeds, and nvin 66MHz AT&T
3210 DSP chips for accelerating Photo-
shop functions and filters.
The Horizon 24 is compatible with
Apple Real Time Architecture (ART A),
which enables it to speed up QuickTime,
3-D modeling, animation, and other
tasks. It supports resolutions up to 1280
by 1024 pixels on a 21-inch monitor in
24-bit color; includes hardware pan and
zoom; and will be available in three mem-
ory configurations: 4MB, 16MB, and
64A1B. Prices weren’t final at press time
but were expected to range from $5000
L eaf systems mas /Vnnounced the
Lumina, a 36-bit color input device
that perfonns the duties of a flatbed scan-
ner, a 35mm transparency and film scan-
ner, and a digital camera for capturing
three-dimensional objects. With its flexi-
bility, relatively low price ($6900), and
ability to capture high-resolution images,
the Lumina is designed for advertising
agencies, catalog publishers, corporate
communications offices, and others who
have a variety of scanning tasks.
The Lumina includes a 2700-element,
single-pass, trilinear charge-coupled
device (CCD) array with a maximum res-
olution of 2700 by 3400 pi.xels. The device
fiistens to any tripod or copy stand and
accepts Nikon bayonet mount lenses (not
included) for capturing image.s. You can
scan transparencies using an off-the-shelf
slide illuminator or placing the slides on a
light box, or scan a roll of 35mm film using
an off-the-shelf automatic film feeder.
Leaf Systems' Lumina combines the capabilities of a
digital camera with a flatbed scanner.
to $15,000, depending on the RAM con-
figuration. RasterOps, 408/562-4200,
800/729-2656
• Radius’s new multiprocessor card
(at |)ress time code-named T2) supports
an optional twin AT&T 3210 DSP
daughterboard. The DSP card replaces
the SCSI-2 accelerator that ships standard
with the T2 board. The T2 and the DSP
card are expected to be available in Janu-
ary; pricing for the daughterboard should
be under $1000 but wasn’t final at press
time. For more information on the T2,
see ** Radius Rocket: The Next Stage,”
News, in this issue.
• SuperMac has announced its
Thunder IIGX 1360 ($4499), which
offers QuickDraw acceleration and twin
DSPs. For more information, see “Super-
Mac’s Prepress Display,” in this section.
—CATHY ABES AND J.A.M.
'Fhe software provided with the
Lumina is an Adobe Photoshop plug-in
that lets you resample 36-bit images to
24 bits; preview; crop; select image
height, width, and resolution; and adjust
the gamma. The Lumina is expected to be
available in January. Leaf Systems,
508/460-8300, 800/68 5 -9462 .-j. a. m.
SuperMac’ s
Prepress Display
B y c:ombining supermac tecmnol-
og)^’s PressView 2 1 Display System
with its 24-bit Thunder II GX 1360
QuickDraw acceleration and DSP card,
graphic designers and prepress operators
can work in .Adobe Photoshop’s CLVIYK
mode as easily as in RGB mode, accord-
ing to SuperMac. Users will also spend
less time scrolling and zooming around
page layouts, thanks to the monitor and
card’s support for a 1360-by-1024-pi.\el
viewing area.
Most graphics professionals work in
Photoshop’s RGB mode, then convert to
CMYK for final output, because CMYK
mode severely taxes the Mac’s processing
power. According to SuperMac, the
Thunder IIGX 1360 ($4499) is the only
QuickDraw graphics accelerator card
with an ASIC that also supports CMYK
processing on the fly. (For other DSP
announcements, see “Products for Pow-
ering Up Photoshop,” in this section.)
The IIGX 1360 includes two 80MHz
AT&T 16A DSP (digital signal proces-
IN BRIEF
■ ColorSync 2.0 Apple's
update to its color-management
system includes support for Post-
Script Level 2, EPS and TIFF profile
tagging, integration within Quick-
Draw GX, and improved cross-plat-
form color profiles, among other
features. ColorSync 2.0 should be
available to developers In early
1994, with products Incorporating
It available later in the year.
■ Quick Quark Update
Fast on the heels of QuarkXPress
3.2 comes QuarkXPress 3.3, which
lets you create text boxes in poly-
gons and other shapes, directly
import JPEG-compressed files, and
automatically add spot colors from
Imported EPS files to the Color
scroll list (for easily adding color to
type and other elements). No
charge to QuarkXPress 3.2 owners;
upgrade from 3.1 is $195.
303/344-3491, 800/788-7835.
■ 3-D Design Strata Stu-
dloPro ($1495), now shipping,
offers sophisticated spline-based
modeling and animation functions
that enable you to Explode, Shat-
ter, and Atomize objects, among
other things. You can also edit and
manipulate objects in preview
mode. 801/628-5218.
sor) chips. The DSPs accelerate such
Photoshop functions as RGB-to-CMYK
conversion and Resize, and speed up Pho-
toshop filters including Sharpen More,
Sharpen Edges, Gaussian Blur, and De-
speckle. The Thunder IIGX 1360 .ships
with Apple’s PhotoFlash (see Graphics
news, January 1994) and Kai’s Power
Tools 2.0.
PressView ($3999) is a 2 1 -inch mon-
itor that is based on a Hitachi tube and
offers a variety of resolutions up to 1360
by 1024 pixels. The display sv^stem is bun-
dled with the SuperMatch Display Cali-
brator Pro, which measures gamma and
white-point temperatures to ensure color
consistency between the monitor and the
intended color output. SuperMac’s dis-
play hood, also included, shields the mon-
itor from glare. PressView also offers a
number of software controls, such as the
ability to adjust the monitor’s white point.
Both PressView and Thunder IIGX 1 360
were expected to ship in November.
SuperMac Technology, 408/541-6100,
800/541 -7660.-J.A.M.
Lumina’s Scanner/Digital Camera
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G R A P H I
C S
GRAPHICS PROFESSIONALS SHARE THEIR SECRETS
by Cathy Abes
Artist: Jim Ludtke is a San Francis-
co-based 3-D artist and animator whose
illustrations have appeared in such pub-
lications as Macwoi'ld, MacUseVy Wiredy
and Newsweek. He has created animations
for such clients as Nintendo, Nicke-
lodeon, and The Voyager Company.
How It Was Done: This image is one
view of a room Ludtke created for Freak
Show, a 3-D interactive CD-ROM by the
performance group The Residents. The
CD-ROM allows you to navigate the
complex 3-D environment — made up of
hundreds of Macromedia Director and
QuickTime movies — exploring the inner
sanctums of the various strange charac-
ters that inhabit Freak Show. This scene
shows the inside of Wanda the Worm
Woman’s trailer, which the artist envi-
sioned as a dark, Gothic habitat.
Working from a rough pencil sketch,
Ludtke created all the elements of the
room in MacroModel. First he built the
shell of the room — the walls and floor —
and used that as a template for building
and placing the other objects. Once he
finished an object, Ludtke deleted the
walls and floor, and saved the result as a
new file. For each object, he duplicated
the shell template and followed the same
building process. The room was made
from these 15 to 20 files, which were
exported to Swivel 3D format and then
imported into Electricimage. Ludtke
prefers MacroModel to other modelers
because it allows you to save each object’s
location in space with a high degree of
accuracy. Once an object was imported
into Electricimage, its location stayed the
same relative to all the other objects.
After texture-mapping, rendering,
and animating the objects in Electric-
image and specifying camera movements,
Ludtke imported the animation files into
Director, and converted them from their
original 24-bit to 8-bit format. On vari-
ous sections of each animation file, he
placed invisible buttons that when clicked
would jump the user to a preset point in
the score, to a particular frame in a movie,
or from one movie to another, m
THE TOOLS
Hardware: Quadra 900 with 52MB of RAM and a 650MB internal hard drive; Micro-
net 44MB removable-cartridge drive; Hammer 650MB removable rewritable-cartridge
drive; Hammer 1000FMF 1GB hard drive; CD Technology CD-ROM drive; SuperMac
Digital Film video-capture board for NTSC output; E-Machines 16-Inch RGB monitor;
Apple 13-inch RGB monitor.
Software: MacroModel 1.5; Swivel 3D Professional 2.0.4; Electricimage Animation
System 1.5; Macromedia Director 3.1; Paco Producer Pro 2.0; Adobe Photoshop 2.5;
QuickTime 1.6.1.
138 February 1 994 MACWORLD
O Ludtke scanned
the ornate Gothic trellis
from a copyright-free
photo; In Photoshop he
enhanced it, saved it as
a PICT file, and Import-
ed it into MacroModel.
With the polyline tool
he traced the trellis,
then duplicated and
selected all the lines
that made up the shape,
and extruded the ob-
ject. The result was a
3-D object aligned to
the scanned artwork.
The final PICT file was
traced and rendered
onto the 3-D model.
Q Ludtke used Mac-
roModel's spline tool to
draw the curved lines
of the wrought-iron
candelabra (left). Next,
he drew a small circle
with the circle tool
(shown in red), dupli-
cated it, then used the
path extrude tool to
extrude the circle along
a spline path; he repeat-
ed this process for each
spline to make the
three-dimensional can-
delabra. He then ex-
ported the model as a
Swivel 3D file and im-
ported It Into the Elec-
tricimage scene.
© The texture map
Ludtke used for Wan-
da's bedspread was
made from original art-
work by John Bolton
that appeared in the
comic-book version of
Freak Show. The Image
was scanned and saved
as a PICT file.
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graphics format using a
plug-in called Elec-
tricimage format (since
Electricimage 1.5 can't
directly import PICT
files), Ludtke imported
it into Electricimage. In
the texture-mapping
dialog box, he made the
Image Into a texture
map (selecting Cylin-
drical Map type and
aligning it to the top of
the model). He then
mapped the finished
texture around the bed-
spread model.
0 The final bed-
spread model, after it
had been texture-
mapped and rendered
in Electricimage.
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142 February 1 994 /MACWORLD
In “Halftones Demystified” {Macworld^
February 1993), I laid out the essentials of
working with halftones on the Mac and
PostScript output devices. I promised in
that article to come back to the subject,
concentrating on scanned images — how
you can capture the best scans, manipu-
late them most effectively, and get the
best possible output with the least work.
Never let it be said that I don’t keep
my promises. In this article, I review the
four most important imperatives of scan-
ning that will help you produce the high-
est-quality output from scanned images
OUTPUT
with a minimum amount of pain:
• Start with good scans.
• Scan at the right resolution.
• Use tonal correction.
• Use sharpening.
If you adhere to these maxims and fol-
low the rules in this article, you can pro-
duce scanned-image output that meets or
exceeds the quality of photographically
produced halftones — and quite possibly
save a chunk of change in the process.
Before we go further, I need to clear
up some terminology. I use the word sa?n-
pies for the elements that make up a scan,
because a scanner samples an image every
Vm inch, ‘/3(H) inch, or whatever. I specify
image resolution in sainples per inch {spi). I
reserve the word dots and the measure-
ment dots per inch (dpi) for the marks that
laser printers and imagesetters make, and
I use pixels for the picture elements that
make up screen displays.
Start with Good Scans
Garbage in, garbage out — GIGO. That
proverb is doubly true with scanned
images. Even if you control the halfton-
ing process to the wth degree, your docu-
ments will look like poo if you don’t have
good scans to work with.
Dynamic range To begin with, you
need a scanner (or access to one through
a service bureau or color house) with good
dynamic range — the ability to detect sub-
tle differences in color levels across the
gamut from light to dark. If the scanner
you’re using has poor dynamic range,
dark areas all go black — displaying none
of the subtle details in the original. And if
you try to bring out shadow^ detail using
the tonal-correction methods discussed
later in this article, light areas wash out
to white or lose the differentiation among
samples that defines highlight detail (see
“Flatbed versus Drum Scan”).
Noise The other quality factor in
judging scanners is noise — random sam-
ples in an area of a given color that don’t
match their surroundings. It’s much like
static on the radio. Nois\^ (or dirty) scans
can cause quality problems, particularly at
lower resolutions.
So which scanner should you use?
Among inexpensive 24-bit color flatbeds,
recent Macworld Lab tests (see “Low-
Cost Color Scanners,” Novem-
ber 1993) have favored the Hewlett-
Packard ScanJet lie (just replaced by the
ScanJet Ilex; see Graphics news, January
1994) and the La Cie Silverscanner II;
the Apple Color OneScanner is also a
favorite of mine (see Reviews, July 1993).
These scanners also work w'ell for gray-
scale and line-art scans, but you won’t get
the dynamic range you can expect from
slide scanners and other high-end solu-
tions. For slides, consider using one of the
Nikon, Leaf, or PLxelCraft scanners.
If you’re scanning a number of 3 5 mm
slides or 4-by-5-inch transparencies,
check out Eastman Kodak’s Photo CD
technology, which captures good-quality
scans on a CD for around $2 a scan. Photo
CD scans are available from many service
bureaus and professional photofinishers;
see “Hands-On: Photo CD,” Macworld,
July 1993, for more information.
When top-notch quality is essential,
you’ll want scans from a drum scanner
that uses photomultiplier tubes, such as
the Crosfield MagnaScan or Optronics
ColorGetter. Unfortunately, you’ll pay a
service bureau $25 to $100 for each scan
from these devices, which isn’t surprising.
FROM YOUR SCAN
since these scanners cost anywhere from
$30,000 to $200,000.
Understanding Resolution
Once you’ve chosen your scanner, you
have to decide on the proper resolution
for your images. But before you can do
that, you need to understand the differ-
ence between scanning resolution and
image resolution.
When you scan a 2-by-2-inch image
at, say, 100 spi (your scanning resolution),
you end up with a 100-spi image. Place
that image on a page, reduce it to 50 per-
NED IMAGES
cent, and the image resolution increases
to 200 spi — the same number of samples
in half the space. That’s the basic rule:
reduce an image and you increase its res-
olution; enlarge the image and you reduce
resolution. There are a couple of quirks,
however: resampling and interpolation.
Resampling Using a program such
as Adobe Photoshop or Fractal Design
ColorStudio, you can change the resolu-
tion of a scan — adding or removing sam-
ple points — without changing its size or
dimensions. The process is called resam-
pling. It’s useful mostly for reducing the
resolution of a scan that has more infor-
mation than you need. In this case the
software has a superfluity of data to work
with, so it can simply throw some away.
Interpolation If you increase the
resolution of an image, on the other hand,
tlie software has to resort to interpolation
to add samples between existing ones.
Interpolation doesn’t really add any infor-
mation, however; it simply adds sample
points based on the existing information.
Dll sieue RoiD
MACWORLD February 1994
14 3
GRAPHICS: MAKE GREAT SCANS
Many scanning programs allow you
to scan at resolutions that are higher
than a scanner’s actual optical resolution
capabilities by interpolating dots into the
scan as it comes in from the scanner.
Likewise, you can interpolate samples by
increasing the resolution in a program
such as Photoshop.
Though interpolation doesn’t im-
prove the detail in an image, it can reduce
PRINTING LIAAITS
P rinting presses can't print
extremely dark or extremely
light tints. Tints darker than 90 or
95 percent clog up and go black;
tints lighter than 5 or 10 percent
just print as white, because the
tiny spots of ink don't adhere to
the paper.
To take best advantage of
the information in your scans,
compress the useful information
into the printable range. The
table below shows typical ranges
for three classes of printing paper.
The third column does the arith-
metic for you. These values are
just rules of thumb. Talk to your
printer (or experiment with your
photocopier) to determine the
best settings for your printing
method.
Printing
Percent
Output
Stock
Range
Levels
Newsprint
12-88
30-225
Uncoated stock
10-90
25-230
Coated stock
5-95
12-243
aliasing (also known as the jaggies). In
some situations this lets you output a scan
at larger sizes with less image degrada-
tion. Interpolation is also useful for
increasing the resolution of line art (see
the sidebar “600-spi Line Art from 300-
spi Scanners”).
Scanning at the Right Resolution
The rule of thumb with color and gray-
scale images is that image resolution
should be two times the screen frequency.
If you’re printing images with an 85-line
screen, for example, which is typical of
newspaper printing, you only need 170
samples per inch. Higher image resolu-
tion does nothing to improve image qual-
ity (see “Looking Sharp”).
Using lower-resolution scans can save
scads of time and disk space. Double the
resolution of a scan, and file size increas-
es by a factor of four. Triple the resolu-
tion, and the file is nine times as large.
The following table of file sizes for a
4-by-5-inch scan illustrates the difference
dramatically.
Image
8-bit
24-bit
Resolution
Gray-Scale
Color
150 spi
439K
1.28MB
225 spi
989K
2.89MB
300 spi
1.72MB
5.15MB
If you’re printing on uncoated stock,
or under other less-than-optimal print-
ing conditions, you may be able to save
even more space and time by scanning at
less than two times screen frequency. Try
using a multiplier as low as the square
root of 2 — 1.414 times screen frequency
(141 spi for a 100-line screen). You may
lose some detail widi this low-resolution
ratio, but the detail may not carry through
die printing process in any case.
Resolution for Line Art
The exception to the two-times-screen-
ffequenq^ rule is black-and-white line art.
For a scan of line art to look as good as
with photographic reproduction, you
need at least an 800-spi image. That’s
great advice, but what if you only have a
300-spi scanner? The simple solution is to
enlarge the original photographically if
necessary (even a quality photocopier
works), scan the image at 300 spi, then
scale it down on the page. For a more
devious method, see “600-spi Line Art
from 300-spi Scanners.”
These high-resolution line-art scans
often print slowly on PostScript devices
and can crash the print job. Apparently
PostScript interpreters are more sensi-
tive to the density of the samples (how
closely together they’re packed) than to
the total file size. (Most imagesetters with
Adobe PostScript interpreters have a spe-
cial bypass routine, however, for black-
and-white bitmaps whose resolution
exactly matches device resolution. So if
you’re printing on a 1270-dpi imageset-
ter, 1270-spi line art can print quickly.)
Also, be aware diat line-art resolution that
exceeds output resolution doesn’t do you
any good. If you’re printing on a 600-dpi
printer, 800-spi line art is overkill.
Tonal Correction
Every scan I’ve ever captured on the desk-
top was too dark, and most of the desktop
scans I see in print have the same prob-
lem. Scanned images almost always
require tonal coircction — they have to be
made brighter — before they’ll print well.
This propensity for dark scans is exac-
erbated by the tendency toward dot gain
that I discussed in “Halftones Demysti-
fied.” To recap, halftone spots in dark
areas tend to merge and clog up in the
reproduction process (camera work.
On the Level
Move these sliders
inward to encompass
more information In the
image. Press the option
key while moving the
sliders to see which
samples in the image are
being clipped to black
or white.
Move this slider to the
left to brighten the
image.
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With Adobe Photoshop you can map the useful in-
formation in a scan to the full range that your print-
ing method can produce. As shown here, Photoshop
will map the values that fall between 5 and 197 (on
a scale of 255) out to the 12-243 range. Since the
middle Input slider is moved to the left, darker val-
ues will be spread out more than lighter ones. This
technique makes samples In shadow areas more dif-
ferent from each other, so image detail becomes
more apparent.
Move these sliders in to
the values suggested in
“Printing Limits."
144 February 1 994 MACWORLD
Throwing Curves
These three representations of an image show the obvious advantage of non- tall bar means there are many sample points in the scan with that value. Dark
linear correction. The graphs reveal how Input values (from the scanner) are values are on the left, lighter values on the right. You should apply tonal correc-
mapped to output values (what gets printed). The bar charts are histograms; a tion to an image before sharpening.
Uncorrected Note
how dark the roadway
is, and how hard it Is to
see fine details, such as
the bricks In the road
(lower-right corner).
Light areas have some
detail in them (notice the tunnel wall, at right). The
histogram shows that all the information Is bunched
in the dark areas of the image, with little differenti-
ation between adjacent samples.
Corrected by In-
creasing Brightness
The linear correction
provided by brightness
controls simply increases
the value for every sam-
ple in the image. There
is a barely detectable amount of additional detail in
the road, but detail in light areas washes out. All of
the information is still grouped In one area; It has
just moved up the scale on the histogram.
Corrected with Non-
linear Correction
Detail is more apparent
in the roadway, and
detail hasn't disap-
peared from the high-
light areas. The values at
the dark end of the histogram are spread out rather
than simply being moved, so adjacent sample points
with slightly different gray values are now more dif-
ferent. This brings out the details in shadow areas.
Looking Sharp
Increasing the resolution of a scan does little to Improve Its sharpness, as you can quency) even though the file Is twice the size. Neither looks nearly as crisp as the
see from the three images here. The 300-spi scan (2 times the 150-llne screen sharpened 212-spi scan,
frequency) is not much sharper than the 212-spi scan (1.4 times the screen fre-
212 spi (1.07MB)
300 spi (2.12MB)
212 spi, sharpened (1.07MB)
MACWORLD February 1 994 1 4 5
GRAPHICS: MAKE GREAT SCANS
600-SPI LINE ART FROM 300-SPI SCANNERS
I t's amazing, but you can capture line art with actual Image detail at up to two
times the resolution of your scanner — up to 600 spi with a 300-spi scanner, for
Instance. Light Source's Ofoto 2.0 and ImageXpress's ScanPrep (a plug-in module
for Adobe Photoshop) manage this task automatically with a variety of scanners,
as does Hewlett-Packard's DeskScan II for the ScanJet series. If you don't have any
of those programs, here's how to do it with other tools.
1. Scan the line art at 300 spi in gray-scale mode (or at the highest optical res-
olution your scanner provides).
2. Resample the image up to 600 spi (or double your scanner's optical reso-
lution). Some scanning software will do this as you scan. Otherwise you can use a
program like Adobe Photoshop, Fractal Design’s ColorStudIo, or even Zedcor’s
DeskPaInt. You can even increase the resolution beyond 2x, up to the device res-
olution. You won't pick up any more detail, but you can reduce aliasing, giving the
art a smoother appearance at the expense of file size.
3. At this point you can use brightness or threshold controls to adjust the
width of the lines In your art. This might require some experimentation.
4- Sharpen the Image. I find that Photoshop's Sharpen filter does a good job.
It's worth experimenting with the filters and settings available in your software.
5- Convert the gray-scale Image to black-and-white (or. In some programs, to
Bitmap), retaining the 600-spi resolution. In Photoshop and most other programs,
use the Threshold conversion option.
6. Save the file and you're done. You've got a 600-spi line-art scan from a
300-spi scanner.
Flatbed versus Drum Scan These two images
demonstrate the advantage that a drum scanner's
dynamic range provides compared with the more
limited capabilities of a flatbed scanner.
The top image, scanned on a Hewlett-Packard
ScanJet Ilex, is impressive if viewed by itself. When
viewed next to the bottom image (scanned on an
Optronics ColorGetter), however, it's apparent how
much postscan tonal correction was necessary in the
ScanJet image to approach the same quality level.
In order to make the highlights of the sweater
as bright and white as they were in the original
photo, it was necessary to adjust the shadow areas
In the ScanJet image excessively, causing posteriza-
tion in the shadows, generating some artifacts, and
losing color saturation in the foliage.
plate-making, printing), resulting in dark,
muddy scanned images. The problem is at
its worst with high screen frequencies
(where dot gain reigns), especially in poor
printing conditions (newsprint or other
uncoated stock, off-white paper, repro-
duction on photocopiers or with paper
plates, and so on). You need to compen-
sate for all this darkening when you cor-
rect your scans.
The solution to dark scans is nonlinear
coiTectioiiy often called gamma con'ection
(see “Throwing Curves”). Nonlinear cor-
rection allows you to brighten and bring
out the details in dark areas of a scan \vixh-
out washing out the light areas to white.
It also provides a means to narrow the
range of grays in an image, restricting it
to values that will reproduce on press (see
“Printing Limits”). Nonlinear correction
can make dark, seemingly unusable scans
look really good.
There are many ways to apply non-
linear correction to a scan. Light Source’s
Ofoto and Hewlett-Packard’s DeskScan
II scanning software offer good tools for
as-you-scan correction (very convenient,
especially if you’re scanning and correct-
ing lots of images). Several scanning and
image-editing packages provide methods
for adjusting the gamma curve.
My favorite method of gamma cor-
rection, however, is to use Adobe Photo-
shop’s Levels control, which enables you
to take the useful information in the scan
and map it out to the full range that your
printing method can produce (see “On
the Level”).
Sharpening
The other problem that’s endemic with
desktop scans is blurriness. For years, all
die desktop scan output I saw — even from
the likes of Aldus and Adobe — was blur-
ry. I’ve never gotten an adequate expla-
nadon of why this is so, but there is a solu-
tion — sharpening. By running scans
through a software sharpening filter, you
can produce sharp, crisp-looking images
quite easily (see “Looking Sharp”).
Producing high-quality halftones
from the desktop requires judgment. You
look at scans on screen, print them on
your laser printer, and view their his-
togt'ams (which show the distribution of
tonal values in a scan); check out the val-
ues in highlight and shadow areas; look at
halftones that you and others have pro-
duced; feed in your knowledge of halfton-
ing and printing technology; and toss in a
healthy dose of that experience that
comes to look and feel like intuition.
Then make judgments on what your
final output will look like based on all
those visual, numeric, graphical, and
intangible inputs.
Knowledge, experience, judgment,
intuition — hard commodities to come by.
But the basic tools for creating high-qual-
ity scanned halftones from the desktop —
high-quality scanners, tonal correction,
sharpening, control over screen set-
tings — are all finally in place. With those
tools, the tips and techniques in this arti-
cle, and a little patience, you can produce
halftones of scanned images that rival the
best in the business, m
Contributing editor STEVE ROTH is coauthor with
David Blatner of Real World Scanning and
Halftones: The Definitive Guide to Scanning and
Halftones from the Desktop (Peachpit Press, 1993).
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W HEN THE BIGGEST SOFTWARE
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150 February 1 994 MACWORLD
IN BRIEF
Persuasion’s Poilable Presentations
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Five objects on a Persuasion 3.0 screen carefully arranged with
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A GOOD GRAPH IS WORTH A THOUSAND
numbers — and can illustrate trends and
relationships far more effectively. Why is
this so? Over the millennia, weVe become
adept at locating the edges of shapes and
discerning size and color differences be-
tween them. In other words, skills that
helped our ancestors hunt and gather are
helping us track the previous quarter’s
sales results. Now that's evolution.
All major spreadsheet and integrated
programs have built-in graphing features.
You will also find graphing features in
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a more scientific slant (see “Choosing a
Graphing Tool”).
Graph Basics
Many graphing programs can create quite
a variety of graph types: bar, column, line,
scatter, radar, pie, and others. How do you
match the graph to your data and create
graphs that get your message across?
First, choose an appropriate graph
type. Are you trying to show how the bud-
get was divided up? Consider a simple pie
chart. Do you want to illustrate increas-
ing market share? A column graph is good
for showing change over time. Do you
need to show the correlation between
population growth and freeway conges-
tion? A double-line graph or a column-
line combination is good for illustrating
comparisons. “A Field Guide to Graphs”
shows the most popular graph formats and
describes what each is best for.
In any graphing program, you start by
specifying the data series — the lists of
numbers, or data points, that the graph
will represent. A line chart showing a
month’s worth of closing stock prices con-
2 tains one data series, while a bar chart
I comparing a year’s worth of quarterly
5 profits for GM, Ford, and Chrysler con-
§ tains three data series — one for each com-
pany (or four, one for each quarter).
The categories of data — for example,
the companies or the quarters you’re
comparing — are usually plotted along
the horizontal, ,r, axis. The data values
themselves — the sales figures, for e.x-
ample — are usually plotted on the vertical,
yy axis. (In bar graphs these two axes are
reversed: the categories are stacked verti-
cally, while the bars extend horizontally to
indicate values.)
Each data item in a graph — the first
quarter’s sales figures, the percentage of a
tax dollar that goes to space-shuttle toilet
design — is a data point (see “Grid and
Graph”). In most programs widi graphing
features, the category names and their
data-point values are stored in a grid of
rows and columns — either in a spread-
sheet document, or in a data window that
looks very much like a spreadsheet.
Get the Message Across
Any graph can benefit from a tide that not
only tells the reader what the graph is
about, but also summarizes the graph’s
key message.
Most people miss that second point
and create bland titles like “1993 Sales
Summar)^ by Territory” and “Home Sales
by County.” Better versions of these tides
might be “1993 Sales Up 10 percent in
East” and “Lake County Leads in Home
Sales.” If you intend your graph to per-
suade, you could even make the tide asser-
tive: “West Needs More Sales Reps.”
When titling a graph, determine the
graph’s primary message. If you can’t
think of a primary message, you might not
need a graph. If the graph has several im-
portant messages, maybe you need several
graphs, which creates opportunities for
titles that tie the graphs together. One
graph might be titled “Inventories Grew
Last Quarter . . .” with an adjacent one
titled “ . . . While Exports Fell.” The el-
lipses reinforce the relationship between
the two graphs.
For a graph with mul-
tiple data series, give the
bars, wedges, or lines dif-
ferent colors, patterns, or
gray shades to set apart the
series. Use patterns or gray
shades for monochrome
output, and colors for slides
and electronic presenta-
tions. If you use patterns,
be sure they differ signifi-
candy: at a quick glance, a
diagonal line pattern with 8
lines per inch looks a lot
like one with 10 lines per
inch, but you can’t mistake
it for one with 16 lines per
inch. In any case, gray
shades are easier on the
eye. Patterns can appear to
shimmer on the page and distract the eye
from the data.
For color graphs, choose hues that
complement the data: red for a bar graph
on a summer heat wave, for example, or
green for profitable quarters. Or try col-
oring one significant element and leaving
everything else in monochrome: your
company’s performance in the color of
your company logo, the competition’s in
black and white. If you use multiple col-
ors, choose sharply contrasting ones —
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Grid and Graph Information displayed in this
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columns, but the chart’s vertical axis will
be compressed. Experiment to find the lo-
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Informative Design The pie chart on the bot-
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sign that are lacking in the top pie chart. The bot-
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cation that will least intrude on the
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Add Precision and Legibility
A graph’s first job may be to communicate
trends or data at a glance, but there’s no
reason a graph can’t also convey hard
facts. By displaying the numbers being
represented, you provide more detail for
readers who give the graph a closer look.
This works especially well for bar, pie, and
column graphs.
If a graph contains many data series,
you might need to use a space-efficient
font so that the values will fit between the
columns or bars, or on top of the pie
wedges. Helvetica Condensed or Helvet-
ica Narrow are good fonts for this. But
you should keep in mind that if your
graph shows too much data or is too small,
it might be necessary to forget about dis-
playing data values.
Speaking of graph typography, avoid
using all capital letters for value or cat-
egory names or graph titles. If diis text is
coming from spreadsheet cells, plan ahead
when you create the original spreadsheet.
For chart titles, consider the final me-
dium: if you’re creating slides or over-
heads, stick with sturdy, sans-serif faces
such as Helvetica Bold or ITC Franklin
Gothic Bold. (See last month’s Working
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You can enhance legibility in bar, col-
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might want to change the scale of the
graph’s value axis to accommodate the
other values and then extend the oddball
bar beyond the graph’s boundaries. You
need a draw program to perform this kind
of modification, but since graphs are ac-
tually object-oriented graphics, it is no
problem to copy and paste a graph into
your draw program, where you can
ungroup and modify its elements.
Designer Graphs
These days it’s fashionable to decorate
graphs with cartoons, icons, symbols, and
other gimcracks. USA Today is often guilty
of garish graphing, and many newspapers
and magazines are jumping on the band-
wagon. Some programs provide features
that make creating these kinds of graphs
easier. Adobe Illustrator 5.0, for example,
lets you specify a symbol or shape to re-
place a plain bar, column, or other data-
point marker.
Many graphing gurus despise this
kind of decoration. To me, a little bit of
decoration — pencils instead of bars in a
graph about scholastic test results, for ex-
ample — isn’t a cardinal sin. But using a
three-dimensional graph to represent
two-dimensional data is a serious offense.
Most graphing programs let you create
3-D bar, column, and line charts where
each column looks Hke a little obelisk or
each line looks like a ribbon. Not only
does this kind of graph make it hard to
decipher the original data, but its 3-D per-
spective can distort or de-emphasize some
of the data. Don’t enter the third dimen-
sion unless your data really is three-di-
mensional — for example, if you want to
show several quarters’ sales results for
GM, Ford, and Chrysler products in sev-
eral regions, then you have a real 3-D data
set that requires a 3-D graph. Even so,
you run the risk of distorting or obscur-
ing some data.
For more background on designing
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9187, 800/822-2454). This beautiful book
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graphics. One of Tube’s principles should
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“Graphical excellence is that which gives
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Area
n
Compares changing values
for several items
over time. Area
graphs emphasize
the relative value of
each series.
Double Line Compares changing
values for several
items over time.
Like area graph, but
emphasizes time in-
stead of values.
Bar Compares values for several
items at one time
(or shows values
distributed over a
period of tirrie).
Column Identical to a bar chart,
but positions the
J ^ categories horizon-
■I tally and the values
_J vertically.
Overlays two chart
types to compare
two data series —
for example, actual
sales versus pro-
jected sales.
the relationship of
parts to a whole.
Can display only
one data series.
High/low/close Shows highest,
lowest, and closing
F |i |. values for multiple
\ items. Commonly
used for displaying
stock quotes.
Scatter Shows the relationship be-
tween several data
series. Useful for
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Combination
Pie Shows
Radar A line radiating from the
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Items on multiple
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pack surprising power — plenty for most
average users — at a very attractive price.
Do the math: to buy separate word pro-
cessing, database, spreadsheet, drawing,
painting, and telecommunications soft-
ware can easily cost over $1000. By con-
trast, the most expensive of the integrat-
ed works programs discussed here lists for
$299 and has a street price under $200.
These programs especially appeal to
users who don’t need high-level features,
but they’re not just for beginners. A pro-
gram like Claris Works, for example, can
be a great value for PowerBook users; it
takes up only 60 IK on disk, needs as lit-
tle as 800K to run, yet provides the essen-
tial tools to write a report, work up a slide
presentation, edit a spreadsheet, or con-
nect to a remote computer.
These programs vary considerably in
quality, however, and some, frankly, are
bad investments. Macworld evaluated four
works programs available for the Mac:
Claris Corporation’s ClarisWorks,
Symantec Corporation’s GreatWorks,
Microsoft’s Microsoft Works, and Word-
Perfect Corporation’s WordPerfect
Works (an upgrade of the now-deftmct
BeagleWorks, purchased from Beagle
Bros Software). One critical measure of a
works program, apart from the quality of
the individual modules, is how well the
modules talk to each other. How easy or
difficult is it to take the data you’ve com-
piled in your spreadsheet and drop it into
your multicolumn word processor docu-
ment? How much trouble is it to place
linked columns of text into a draw docu-
ment to do basic page layouts?
Integration
Of the four, ClarisWorks provides the
fastest and most seamless integration. You
can drop a spreadsheet right into a word
processing document — no importing,
exporting, publishing and subscribing, or
even cutting and pasting. Just drag a rect-
angle where you want the spreadsheet to
appear — and start crunching the num-
bers. Tools and menus change instantly to
accommodate whatever type of object
you’re working on. Double-click on a
bitmapped graphic witliin a word proces-
sor document, and paint tools pop up so
you can edit the picture — no waiting
while the program opens the selected
item in a separate window.
By contrast, GreatWorks has strong
component modules, but they’re clumsi-
ly integrated. To bring a spreadsheet into
a word processing document, you have to
paste it in as a picture; to maintain a live
link with the original spreadsheet, you
must activate publish and subscribe. To
edit the spreadsheet, you have to fetch the
original document using standard pub-
lish-and-subscribe commands. In other
words, two GreatWorks modules are no
more tightly integrated than any two
stand-alone Mac programs. Microsoft
Works is even worse; it doesn’t even sup-
port publish and subscribe.
WordPerfect Works’ integration
scheme, based on System 7’s publish and
subscribe capabilities, is functional but not
elegant. You can mix spreadsheets, draw-
ings, paintings, and text on a page, but
each must be edited in its own window-
within-a-window. When you double-click
on a spreadsheet embedded in a text doc-
ument, for example, you must wait as the
spreadsheet opens in a miniwindow and
the proper tool emdronment appears.
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Here’s how these four contenders
rate module by module.
Word Processing
A strong word processor is essential
to any works program. The integrated
programs we looked at handle the word
processing basics, but all four leave out a
handful of important features. Claris-
Works, for example, has no word-count
feature (which as a journalist I miss), while
Microsoft Works doesn’t handle multi-
ple columns. Here’s how they stack up.
ClarisWorks Claris Works offers an
impressively powerful word processing
module. It’s the only one that lets you
insert a text file, a graphic, or even a
QuickTime movie without copying and
pasting. It also offers a superb outline
view (with six formats), custom column
widths, character-level styles (so you can
apply a font, size, and style with one com-
mand), footnoting, and the ability to wrap
text around irregular graphics. Yet Clar-
isWorks lacks some capabilities you
might expect to see even in a stripped-
down word processor, such as tables and
word count, and paragraph-level styles.
Still, it’s the most efficient word proces-
sor in any of these works programs.
GreatWorks GreatWorks, too, lacks
paragraph styles, but it lets you define
character styles, which it automatically
assigns ^-key shortcuts. The adequate
outliner resides in a separate module.
Page-design tools are GreatWorks’
Achilles’ heel. You can’t wrap text around
irregular objects, or zoom in to see details
or out to view a whole page. To preview
a page, you have to click on a Preview but-
ton tucked away in the Print dialog box.
And the omission of footnoting makes
GreatWorks unsuitable for writing
research papers.
GreatWorks does have a few neat fil-
lips. It’s the only works program with an
envelope-printing feature and the only
one that can automatically place a hairline
rule between columns of text.
Microsoft Works This skimpy word
processor bears but faint resemblance to
its respected cousin, Microsoft Word.
You get neither paragraph styles nor
character styles, and no multiple-column
options. Also, it can’t display invisible
characters such as paragraph marks and
tab indents — a real hindrance to anyone
who does serious word processing.
Two redeeming points are Microsoft
Works’ footnotes and its macro function,
which lets you record keystrokes — a
return address, say — and have Works type
them for you. There’s also a convenient
floating palette with pop-up menus for
choosing, sizing, and styling fonts. But
these hardly make up for the module’s
omissions or its sluggishness.
WordPerfect Works First the good
news: this is the only word processing
module that supports full-fledged para-
graph styles, as most stand-alone word
processors do. You can even import style
sheets from one document to another for
consistent formatting.
Sadly, there’s little else to recom-
mend this word processor. It doesn’t han-
dle footnotes, which rules it out for re-
searchers. And while you can type or paste
text into frames for page layouts, you can’t
link fi*ames to flow text to the next desig-
nated frame as in both ClarisWorks and
Microsoft Works. Also, when you set text
in multiple columns, WordPerfect Works
doesn’t let you customize the width of
each colunrn, as other programs do.
Draw
Once again, all four programs give you
the bare-bones basics you need to create
maps, diagrams, and fancy titles; but only
a couple have the power for more refined
graphics work requiring precisely rotated
images or making illustrations with layers.
ClarisWorks ClarisWorks’ intuitive
drawing environment will seem familiar if
you’ve worked with MacDraw Pro or
ClarisDraw. The interface offers impres-
sive custom gradients and excellent shape
tools, including the bezigon tool, for
shaping freehand objects. Despite a few
limitations — ^you can rotate objects only
in 90-degree increments, for instance —
this module is a treat to use. The ability to
zoom from 3200 percent down to 3.13
percent makes it easy to refine tiny details
and get an overview of large drawings.
And the tools are almost always available,
so whatever module you’re in, you can
draw directly in text documents, spread-
sheets, charts, or databases.
GreatWorks This draw module is
almost on a par with ClarisWorks’. The
Comparison of Works Packages
ClarisWorks
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' GreatWorks
Microsoft
Works 3.0
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$299
$249
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800/426-9400
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•
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•
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•/•
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•
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O
0
Multigontool
: •
o
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o
o
•
Q
• = yes; O = no/none; NA = not applicable. ^ Preformatted envelope printing available in database. ® Text can be placed
in multiple columns when in draw mode. ^ Limited only by available memory. ° Must specify angle in a dialog box.
' Colors can be edited in paint mode.
162 February 1994 MACWORLD
palette features well-designed Bezier and
multigon tools and an array of arrow-tips
and dashed lines. You can choose from
16 velvety gradients or design your own.
You can also edit arrow-tips, dashes, pat-
terns, and colors. You can align (but not
distribute) objects and rotate them in
90-degree increments only.
Microsoft Works This module is
barely usable. Wliy create a draw program
with so few options ? There are no zoom
capabilities, no gradients, no alignment
commands. Drawings are limited to one
letter-size page; you can’t edit patterns or
colors; and object layering is clumsy.
Instead of these basics, Microsoft
tossed in a bunch of trivia, like Auto-
Shadow, which applies a shadow to an
object, and Spread Text, which binds text
to a line, diagonal, or arc. Neidier extra is
very useful, and neither works well.
WordPerfect Works WordPerfect
Works’ draw module is one of its weak
spots, though it outdoes that of Microsoft:
Works. The WordPerfect module has no
gradients and offers a scanty eight te.xt
colors and eight line weights.
Paint
Here there are only three contenders.
Microsoft left out a paint module — and
WordPerfect probably should have.
ClarisWorks Again the cream of the
crop is from ClarisWorks. Among this
paint module’s special offerings are mul-
tiple paint modes that let you tint images
with layers of transparent color, excellent
Lighten and Darken commands, and a
Blend command that softens edges. And
only ClarisWorks allows you to specify a
painting’s resolution, from 72 to 360 dpi.
GreatWorks Sketchy documenta-
tion aside, this paint module is surpris-
ingly good, with lots of tools and com-
mands for skewing, stretching, rotating,
and lightening and darkening images.
You get customizing options such as the
ability to control the flow of the spray
can and to edit gradients, patterns, and
brushes. However, die function of some
tools is ambiguous. For e.xample, of the
eight paint modes, half seem to have no
visible effect on your painting. Even the
manual suggests that the best way to see
how each mode operates is to experiment.
WordPerfect Works This is the
weakest paint module. Paintings are lim-
ited to one letter-size page — 576 by 720
pixels. Other options are extremely limit-
ed. Like the draw module, the paint mod-
ule has no gradients and only eight text
colors. You can’t edit the flow of the
spray-can tool, and the program skimps on
special-effects — offering no way to blend,
skew, tint, or add perspective to images.
This is the only paint module lacking a
free-rotate command. Integrating paint
documents into other documents also can
be frustrating: what shows in the paint
editing window may not appear when you
publish the graphic elsewhere. Cropping
is tricky and hard to control.
Database
Every one of the database modules allows
you to build rudimentaiy^ flat-file data-
bases with fields for text, numbers, and
dates. All support multiple layouts for
producing columnar reports, labels,
forms, and so on. Beyond this, tiie options
vary widely. However, even the best of
the database modules offers considerably
less tiian a full-featured database.
ClarisWorks Not surprisingly, Claris-
Works offers a heavily trimmed-down
version of Claris’s own FileMaker Pro,
and as such it is slick and intuitive. The
high-level powers have been stripped out,
most notably scripting, which lets you
automate database tasks and on-screen
buttons; and this light version has no pic-
ture fields, so it can’t store graphics. Still,
you get 91 built-in functions, 73 tem-
plates for printing to Avery labels, and
adequate search commands. Field for-
matting options are limited, but you can
set up multiple-choice fields — absent in
all the other programs. And ClarisWorks’
macro features let you automate at least
some of the database ftmetions.
GreatWorks This database is a real
mixed bag. On the positive side, it’s
equipped with 94 built-in functions —
more than any of its competitors — and
unlike ClarisWorks, it supports picture
fields. You can also add scrolling memo
fields to contain lengthy text passages.
On the downside, GreatWorks has no
ready-to-use label layouts (though you
can build them from the handful of tem-
plates included). Another flaw: the zoom
options that operate in a draw document
disappear when you use drawing tools to
add graphic elements such as lines and
borders to a database.
Microsoft Works This sparse data-
base leaves much to be desired. It offers
only four field types: text, number, date,
and time. Setting up an interface is clum-
sy and slow because you have to create
each field, one at a time, through a suc-
cession of dialog boxes (all the other pro-
grams do this through a single dialog
box). Using the database is also a pain.
You have to enter data in a bar at the top
of the screen, instead of directly in the
field. To Microsoft’s credit, the program
does support built-in macros, each of
which you can link to a keyboard short-
cut. So Microsoft Works’ database offers
more automation features than some of
the other programs — you can save a set
Custom Charts ClarisWorks creates charts with-
in the spreadsheet module. You can choose from 12
types, including pictogram. Of the four packages,
only ClarisWorks supports 3-D and shadowed charts.
Reorienting the Tool Bar Turn GreatWorks'
drawing and painting tool palette vertically or hori-
zontally for a clear view of your page. Paste text
blocks into a draw document for simple page layouts.
Push-Button Links In Microsoft Works' drawing
mode you can link frames so that text flows between
them. To set up a link, click on the middle button at
the bottom of a frame and then on the frame you
want the text to flow to. Then the arrow buttons take
you back and forth between linked frames.
Text-Wrap Options WordPerfect Works allows
you to embed graphics, charts, and spreadsheets in
text documents. You can even flow text around a
graphic or superimpose graphics and text.
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AT WORK: INTEGRATED SOFTWARE
Comparison of Works Packages (continued)
ClarisWorks
GreatWorks’
Microsoft
WordPerfect
2.0v1
2.0.1
Works 3.0
Works 1.2i1
Paint
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•
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NA
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mm
NA
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•
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NA
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Sk^ and shear
•
NA
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•
NA
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Perspective
•
• '
NA
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•
NA
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Lighten and darken
•
m -
NA
■:0
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•
^ ■ -
NA
Resolution (in dpi)
72-360
72
NA
72
Brush mirrors
O
NA
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Magic>Wand tool
•
NA
Transparent controls ;
•
NA
■
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o
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•
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•
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73
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•
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91
94
57
54
Macros
•
O
•
O
Sliding fields
•
•- ■
•
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Picture fields
O
O
: •
Time and date field
•
■ -0.
•
Spreadfluiok/Cliart
Maximum cells (across/down)
256/1 6.3B4
256/16,834
256/16.832
256/16,834
Built-in functions
100
103
64
57
Hide cell grfd
•
•
• -
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O
O
•
Headers and footers
•
m'
•
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•
• :■
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Adjust row height/column width
m/m
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•
m
p*'
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Number of chart types
12
8
6
8
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spreadsheet
•
o
; •
•
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•
•
o
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5/4
9/6
10/4
5/4
3-P charts
•
O
‘ O
Pictogram charts
•
•
o
0 ■■ V ■
• = yes; O = no/none; NA = not applicable. ^ Choices are limited to full color or black-and-white. Can create custom
labels using generic templates. ^ 16 form layouts, 16 columnar report layouts, and 1 list-view layout ' Limited only by
availdyle memory. ‘ Headers can be suppressed when printing. Involves switching mode to access draw tools.
of search criteria as a filter and apply the
filter with a macro, for example. This still
doesn’t make up for an ungainly interface.
WordPerfect Works Like Microsoft
Works’ module, this database employs a
spreadsheetlike approach — ^you type data
in an entry bar, not in the actual fields.
But what’s really miserable is that you
can’t add graphic elements directly to a
layout; no drawing tools are available. To
add just one rule or title, you must create
a new draw document, name and save it in
a dialog box, and then position its frame
on the database layout. It’s an unbearably
roundabout process.To make matters
worse, the commands used to apply bor-
ders and shading to fields yielded incon-
sistent results. On top of all this, the mod-
ule offers only 54 built-in functions and
seems remarkably unintuitive to use.
Spreadsheet/Chaiting
All the spreadsheet modules build in the
formulas most users need to assemble
decent spreadsheets of up to 256 columns
and well over 16,000 rows. Formatting
options aren’t wildly impressive, and
while all the programs generate function-
al charts and graphs, the variety won’t
bowl you over.
ClarisWorks ClarisWorks’ spread-
sheet is the best, with 100 built-in func-
tions. You get extensive control over how
a document displays — ^with or without
column and row headers or gridlines. To
make a chart, you simply select a range of
cells and choose the Make Chart com-
mand. You can pick from 12 chart types —
and it’s the best selection; some can be
shadowed or shown in 3-D. A tilt
option positions pie charts at an angle,
mimicking perspective.
Once you’ve created a chart, it’s easy
to dress it up, changing colors, fonts, and
patterns or applying gradients. Claris-
Works also allows you to paste in PICT
graphics to create pictogram charts.
GreatWorks GreatWorks’ spread-
sheet shares many of ClarisWorks’
strengths. In fact, it has three more built-
in functions and a better variety of time
and date formats. The main drawback is
that GreatWorks handles charts and
spreadsheets in separate modules. After
selecting a range of cells, you have to open
a new Chart document to create the chart.
Then you must paste the chart or publish
it to place it in a finished document — a
cumbersome procedure.
As with ClarisWorks, you can easily
change a chart’s colors, patterns, and
fonts, and you can paste in your own
graphics to create a pictogram chart.
None of its eight chart types are quite as
fancy as those generated by ClarisWorks.
Microsoft Works This is a Stone-
Age spreadsheet. It’s limited to 64 built-
in functions, lacks many significant fea-
tures, and has only 6 chart types. You
can’t change the height of rows or hide
row and column headers on screen. As in
all of Microsoft Works’ modules, you
can’t zoom out to view a large spreadsheet
or home in on details. And character for-
matting is utterly bizarre: if you try to
change the font or font size in a single
cell, the entire spreadsheet changes to the
new format, not just the selected cells.
That means one font in one size per
spreadsheet. Yet changing color and type
style affects selected cells only.
To be fair, this module has two good
features. One is borrowed from Excel:
you can record notes on individual cells.
A tiny black rectangle appears in any
annotated cell. Also, when you use the
Paste Function command, Microsoft
Works provides a brief, helpful explana-
tion of each function as you select it.
WordPerfect Works Here again are
some very sensible features along with
some very bad ones. Buttons on the well-
164 February 1 994 MACWORLD
designed tool bar let you quickly apply the
most common cell formats — borders,
shading, boldface, italics, and numerical
formats such as currency or percentages.
Another button lets you Sum a selected
row or column of numbers with one click.
Formatting options abound. For example,
you can display negative numbers with a
minus sign, in red, in parentheses, or with
a combination of these. Borders and grid-
lines can be in any of eight colors, instead
of black only, as in the other programs.
Like Microsoft Works, the program can
append text notes to cells.
The bad news is that you can’t access
the program’s drawing tools when work-
ing in the spreadsheet, to circle a cell, for
example, or draw an arrow pointing to a
significant figure. Also, the program’s
charting scheme is particularly weak. The
eight chart types are uninspiring and exist
apart from the spreadsheet; when you
click on the chart-making button, Word-
Perfect Works opens a draw window and
builds the chart there. This is slow and
the results are unimpressive.
Communications
Since most modems come bundled with
full-featured telecom software, and online
services such as CompuServe and Amer-
ica Online provide their own specially
tailored telecom packages, a works pro-
gram’s communications module is prob-
ably its least-used part. So when you’re
choosing among works programs, tele-
com capabilities needn’t be a major con-
sideration — diat’s why we don’t list these
features in the product-compari.son table.
Good thing, too, because none of
these programs is particularly strong in
this area. They all rely on the Apple
Modem Toolbox and provide little be-
yond the essentials. All four can make
either a modem connection or a serial
connection (to connect your Mac direct-
ly to another computer). And all at the
very least allow you to use TTY and
VT102 terminal emulations and to send
and receive files using Xmodem and other
protocols for transferring text files.
ClarisWorks TTie ClarisWorks tele-
com module includes a simple phone-
book feature for storing frequently used
numbers. Clicking on the phone-dial icon
on the status bar displays a pop-up menu
of all numbers; selecting one dials that
number and opens the connection. How-
ever, ClarisWorks doesn’t save line set-
tings (baud rate, stop bits, parity, and so
on) along with the phone numbers, so you
need to check those manually before each
call — an unnecessary hassle.
Along with the standard Xmodem
and text-transfer tools, the module comes
with Kennit, a file-transfer protocol, use-
ful for exchanging files with computers
that can’t use Xmodem. Best of all, you
can use ClarisWorks’ macros to handle
dialing and logging on. You can instruct
the program to wait for a specified text
string such as “Connect” before automat-
ically typing a log-on sequence.
GreatWorks This is a very minimal
module. It comes with tools for Xmodem
and text file transfers only. A status bar
tells you at a glance the terminal emula-
tion, the file-transfer protocol, and
whether a serial or modem connection is
selected. But there’s no way to store
phone numbers, so you have to enter
them manually every time you make a
connection.
Microsoft Works This module in-
cludes some attractive features. A small
palette gives easy access to the tools you
need to select a folder for capture files and
to open a connection. In addition to pro-
viding Xmodem, text transfer, and Kermit
tools, only Microsoft Works supports
VT320 terminal emulation. It’s also the
only one that can automatically calculate
the cost of an online session based on the
service’s per-hour or per-minute rate. A
macro feature lets you record a sign-on
sequence for automatic playback. With all
that done right, the omission of a phone
book seems an odd oversight.
WordPerfect Works This is the
standout communications module. The
status bar displays the current settings,
time, and date, while buttons on the tool
bar give quick access to all the most fre-
quently used commands. And finally — a
phone book that stores numbers along
with their connection settings. You can
teach the program to dial one number at
9600 bps using the TTY emulation and
another at 2400 bps with the VT102 emu-
lation — saving you the trouble of adjust-
ing the settings. A miniscripting feature
lets you automate connections. You can
instruct the modem to wait for a specified
text string, pause for a designated num-
ber of seconds, dien enter a password.
The Works that Works
The clear winner in this roundup is the
polished and elegant ClarisWorks. Its
modules are tightly integrated and each
offers solid performance. By the way,
ClarisWorks is also the only one of the
four with a slide-show feature. In a pinch,
you can create and display a business pre-
sentation without leaving ClarisWorks —
and get fairly impressive results.
On top of all that, ClarisWorks is the
most compact of the programs — perfect
for PowerBook users pressed for disk
space and memory (whereas Microsoft
Works, the weakest program, is the larg-
est, taking up 1.1MB and suggesting a
1MB memory partition). True, Claris-
Works is the most expensive, but for only
$50 more (list price) than Microsoft
Works or WordPerfect Works, you get a
much better product.
GreatWorks and WordPerfect Works
rank about evenly behind ClarisWorks.
WordPerfect Works has the better tele-
com and word processing features but
falls well short of GreatWorks in the
drawing, painting, and spreadsheet/
database departments. Bargain hunters
may be drawn to GreatWorks’ low
price — for only $129.95 list you do get a
lot. But remember that its modules are
poorly integrated, and Symantec has no
upgrade plans on the near horizon.
At the bottom of the heap, under-
powered and out of date, is Microsoft
Works. Incredibly, for nearly twice the
price of GreatWorks it offers about half
the features. Microsoft plans a great leap
forward when Works 4.0 ships early in
1994. In addition to greatly enhancing the
program’s current powers — and adding a
paint module — Microsoft promises to
provide elegant integration, even building
in an address book, calendar, and sched-
uler. There will be scripts that automate
certain tasks, and templates for creating
forms, phone directories, business cards,
and other documents.
If Microsoft delivers. Works could
become a most appealing option. Until
then, steer clear — and then check to see
how it rates against the ClarisWorks
upgrade, also planned for early 1994.
For now, ClarisWorks is clearly the
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Tips, Tricks, and Shortcuts
SEVERAL TYPOGR.\PHICAL ERRORS CREPT
into last December’s tip “Extracting
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Printer Driver Upgrade
StyleWriter owners no longer have to
hunt and beg for StyleWriter II driver
software (as suggested in December’s
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share their printers over a network. Apple
has approved version 1.2 of the Style-
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StyleWriter II printers, and has approved
version 1.2 of the LaserWriter 300 driver
for Personal LaserWriter LS printers.
These drivers are part of Apple’s recently
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titled StyleWriter and Personal Laser-
Writer LS Printer Driver Upgrade. The
kit also includes the eight basic TrueType
font families and is available for $49 from
The Apple Catalog (800/795-1000, Cat.
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The StyleWriter II 1.2 driver also
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Resolving System Errors
a I’m sure you’ve answered this be-
fore, but w'hat do the different
types of system errors mean? A crj^Jtic
message like “Your application has unex-
pectedly quit due to an error of type 3” is
most un-Mac-like.
Phil Rinehait
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A For the most part, the error num-
■ bers you get with “unexpectedly
quit” alerts or system error alerts (the ones
w'ith the bomb icon) have no useful mean-
ing. The Mac knows something went
wTong, but it doesn’t know specifically
what caused the trouble. Error types 1
through 14 generally indicate a software
problem. It could be caused by a freak co-
incidence of keystrokes and mouse-clicks
or by an incompatibility between two or
more programs at any level (system soft-
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a few). Types 15 through 24 and type 27
indicate a problem with the system soft-
ware. The System file may be corrupted,
the start-up disk may have a bad spot, or
there simply may have been an ephemeral
glitch on the SCSI bus. Types
25, 28, and 33 mean a program
ran out of memory. A few pro-
grams keep poor track of their
memory use, but even one that
watches memory carefully can
be caught by surprise.
Occasional bombs, freezes,
and programs unexpectedly
quitting are all part of Mac life.
Protect against them by saving
your work frequently and by
backing up your disks regularly.
And try really hard to be philo-
sophical about them.
Daily crashes warrant track-
ing down and fixing. If you re-
cently upgraded to System 7 or
bought a new Mac and are using
old software with it, be sure to
check your old software, including the
driver soft^vare on old hard drives, as de-
scribed in last month’s Quick Tips. To
decrease recurring memory errors with
a particular program, try quitting the
program and increasing the minimum
memory size in its Get Info window.
To isolate a compatibility problem
with extensions and control panels (which
are called INITs and edevs in System 6),
restart your Mac with all extensions and
control panels off. In System 7, you hold
down the shift key while starting up until
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message; it should also say “Extensions
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Disk Tools floppy, drag all the INITs and
edevs from the System Folder on your
hard drive to the desktop, and restart from
the hard drive. If the problem goes away,
put the extensions on the desktop and
control panels in the Control Panels
folder (System Folder in System 6), and
restart. If this solves the problem, the of-
fending item is among the extensions on
the desktop; if not, it is among the control
panels. In either case, leave only half the
group containing the offending item on
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and mouse. Also remove all expansion
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defective or incompatible peripheral.
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Smooth Curves
I frequently create mathematical
curves using True BASIC, paste
them into Microsoft Word, and then print
them on my laser printer. The graphics
copied from True BASIC print at 72 dpi
on the 300-dpi laser printer. Can you rec-
ommend a process or a program that can
print mathematical curves (sine and cosine
waves, parabolas, and so forth) at 300 dpi?
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A Wolfram Research’s Mathematica,
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you can throw at it and print at your
printer’s full resolution, but it needs 8MB
to 12MB of RAM and at least a 68020
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pairs of data points and print it at your
printer’s full resolution. (I don’t recom-
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markers.) Or you can copy the spread-
sheet’s chart to a word processing docu-
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programs copy charts to the Clipboard as
PICT graphics, which have no fixed reso-
lution. The printer driver software auto-
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printer’s best resolution. In contrast. True
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mapped graphic, whose resolution cannot
be changed by the printer driver.)
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HOW TO DRAW
A re you a Canvas user who's
tired of depending on clip
art for pictures of people? Have
good ideas but no drawing abil-
ity? Inept with the B6zier tool?
Scott Edwards of Sierra Vista, Ari-
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of the books that show people and
animals drawn from overlapping
simple shapes. His favorite of the
genre Is Cartooning the Head and
Figure, by Jack Hamm (1990, Peri-
gee Books, 212/951-8400). You
use the oval and rectangle tools
to draw the shapes the book
shows. Where the book tells you
to erase lines, use the Outline com-
mand in the Combine submenu
of Canvas's Object menu. You can
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the same submenu to cut away
part of a shape; think of the un-
derlying object as rolled, shaped
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To tilt ovals 2 and
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the Sepd to Back command in the
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2 . Select ovals 1
through 7 and
choose Outline
from the Combine
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selecting it, choosing Edit Curve
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in column A either by typing
each one or by using a fonnula
to calculate them. For ex-
ample, suppose you want to
plot a curve with 40 .v values
and have each x value be 0.25
greater than the previous
value. You would enter the
initial x value in cell Al, enter
the formula =A1+0.25 in cell
A2, and propagate the fonnula
from A2 through A40 with the
spreadsheet program’s Fill
Down command. In column B
you put the formula of the
curve. For example, typing the
formula =SIN(A1) in cell Bl
and then filling down fi*om Bl
through B40 calculates a sine
curve for the 40 .v values in
cells Al through A40. Finally you create
a line chart from the data and print the
chart from the spreadsheet program. For
specific instructions and shortcuts on ac-
complishing these tasks, consult the
spreadsheet program’s manual.
PrintMonitor Nagging
a A short time after I select die Print
command’s Manual Feed option
and click OK to begin printing, an alert
interrupts me with a message saying, “The
printer is waiting for a sheet of paper.
Please choose PrintMonitor from the Ap-
plication menu.” I must click OK and
open PrindVIonitor, only to get another
alert asking me to insert paper. Because I
have already placed paper in the manual-
feed tray, these redundant steps are an-
noying. They did not appear before I up-
graded from System 7.0 to 7.1. Is there a
way to turn them off?
Edward J. Cushing
Saint Paul, Minnesota
A Open PrintAIonitor (it’s in the Ex-
■ tensions folder) and use its Prefer-
ences command to set the type of nodfi-
cation you want when a manual-feed job
starts: no notification, a flashing icon in
the menu bar, or the alert you loathe. You
can also set the type of notification you
want when a printing error occurs.
Home-Brew Print Server
With System 7’s file shar-
ing and the LaserWriter 8 driver.
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you can make any Mac a cheap, effective
print server within minutes. A print sender
takes over the burden of background
printing from client Macs. Clients get the
benefits of background printing without
the drag on foreground tasks. The ser\^er
and client Macs must all have System 7
and LaserWriter 8 installed and be con-
nected in a network (such as PhoneNet,
Print-Server Setup AAake any Mac a LaserWriter 8 print server
by installing LaserWriter 8 software, turning on System 7's file
sharing, creating user icons and a group for client Macs, and sharing
the server's PrintMonitor Documents folder.
LocalTalk, EtherTalk). Unfortunately,
the LaserWriter 7 drivers will not work.
You can get LaserWriter 8 software for
$24.95 from Apple’s software order cen-
ter (800/769-2775, ext. 7873), or by mo-
dem from AppleLink, America Online,
and other information services.
On the Mac that will be the print
server, use the Sharing Setup control
panel to start file sharing. Open the Us-
ers & Groups control panel and make sure
it contains a user icon for each Mac that
will be a client of die print server; create
user icons with the Finder’s New User
command. Then create a new group icon,
name it Print Server Clients, and drag the
user icons of all client Macs to the new
group icon. Next open the System Folder
and use the Finder’s Sharing command to
set access privileges for the PrintMonitor
Documents folder. For optimum security,
turn off all privileges at the Everyone level
(thus disallowing guest access), turn on all
privileges at the User/Group and the
Owner levels, set the User/Group to Print
Server Clients, and turn on the option
“Can’t be moved, renamed or deleted.”
For examples of the Users & Groups con-
trol panel and the access privileges win-
dow of the PrintiMonitor Documents
folder, see “Print-Server Setup.”
On each client Mac, use the Chooser
to share the server’s PrintMonitor Docu-
ments folder or the disk that contains it,
whichever is named in the Chooser’s list
of sharable items. Make an alias of the
server’s PrintMonitor Documents folder,
change the alias’s name to PrintiMonitor
Documents, and drag the alias to the
client’s System Folder so it replaces the
PrintMonitor Documents folder there. If
tlie client Mac tells you its PrintMonitor
Documents folder is locked when you try
to replace it, use the client’s Sharing Setup
control panel to stop file sharing (\'ou can
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start it up again after replacing the Print-
Monitor Documents folder with the
alias). If you like, you can copy the icon
from the Get Info window of the client’s
PrintMonitor Documents folder before
replacing it, and then paste the icon into
the Get Info window of the alias. From
now on, the client will automatically for-
ward print jobs to the server.
Milo Shai-p
Fairbariks, Alaska
If the print server is not available (for example, if it
is turned off), then the client cannot forward print-
spool files. When the server becomes available, look
In the client's System Folder for files with names
like PS Spool F ie 1 and drag them to the PrintMonitor
Documents alicis. The Finder copies the files across
the network to the server, and then you can drag
them to the client's Trash.
To have a client Mac resume handling Its own
background printing, simply drag the PrintMonitor
Documents alias out of Its System Folder. The client
will automatically create a new PrintMonitor Docu-
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It is possible to set up a print server with Laser-
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If your PowerBook occasionally
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mode, try unplugging the AC cord from
the PowerBook, plugging it back in, and
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sists awakening several times a week.
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THE LATEST IN CONNECTIVITY AND COMMUNICATIONS
Revamped ARA Hits the Road
R oad warriors and network ad-
ministrators rejoice: Apple has over-
hauled its AppleTalk Remote Access
(ARA) sofmare, splitting it into clients
and servers that offer easier use, better
administration, tighter security — and,
eventually, support for non-Macintosh
computers.
The original ARA’s combination
client-and-ser\^er software allows any Mac
to dial in to any other Mac running the
software. Once logged on, the remote
Mac behaves like a local AppleTalk net-
work node, accessing netw'ork resources
through the Chooser and advertising its
own services to the rest of the network,
though at slow modem speeds. ARA 1.0
requires users to install the client-server
combination on every Mac, regardless of
what function the Mac performs.
Rechristened at its November release
as Apple Remote Access, the software
now consists of a separate client and two
different servers.
Apple Remote Access xMultiPort
Server for Macintosh (suggested retail
price $1799) is the new top-of-the-line
ARA offering. ARA MiiltiPort Server lets
managers adjust password length, force
password changes, adjust the number of
invalid log-on attempts allowed before
locking out a user, hide network zones
from specific users, set limits on individ-
ual connection time, and disable clients*
Save Password option to keep unautho-
rized users off the nenvork.
In addition. Security Dynamics and
other security software and hardware
makers have said they will take advantage
of ARA’s new modular design to integrate
their authentication schemes into the
server to augment its built-in password
and call-back measures.
ARA MiiltiPort Server administrators
can disconnect any client at any time, set
log-on greeting messages, and send
broadcast messages to attached clients, in
addition to monitoring some serv^er func-
tions through the Simple Network Man-
agement Protocol (SNAIP).
Supporting up to 16 simultaneous
connections, ARA MultiPort Server
comes with a NuBus serial card, modem
cable, and software to support four
modems and four clients. Expansion kits
(suggested retail price $1499) support
four more modems and users.
A drop-in software extension for the
high-end serv'er, to be sold separately in
spring 1994, will let users connect \na an
X.25 network. The price was not set at
press time. An ISDN extension is planned
by another company, said Apple officials.
Non-AppleTalk users will eventually
be able to dial in to their own networks
through an Apple Remote Access server.
Apple said it will support both NetWare
IPX and TCP/IP using the Point-to-
Point Protocol (PPP), but hasn’t
announced availability or pricing.
The low-end server option, Apple
Remote Access Personal Server for Mac-
intosh, is a single-line sci*vcr suitable for
a small workgroup or an individual, with
a suggested list price of $249. Function-
ally almost equivalent to ARA 1 .0, the
new ser\^er does allow users to change
their own passwords, a task formerly
resen'ed for network managers. This
server comes with one copy of the client
software.
The client program, Apple Remote
Access Client for Macintosh, lets /Vlacs
dial in to any ARA-compatible server.
(ARA 1.0 users, however, can’t access tlie
new servers through their software.)
The client’s new control panel, Dial-
Assist, can be configured to insert the cor-
180 February 1 994 MACWORLD
rect dialing codes when PowerBook users
move from place to place. ARA Client
users can also display a blinking icon
reminding them they are online. A new
extension lets them break the remote con-
nection from within any application.
The suggested retail price for ARA
Client for Macintosh is $69, $599 per ten-
pack. ARA Client ships free with new
PowerBooks; site licenses are available.
—MARGIE WYLIE
DaVinci Repaints
Mac E-mail
D AVINCI SYSTEMS CORPORATION,
known for its NetWare MHS-based
E-mail applications for DOS and Win-
dows PCs, plans to finally start shipping a
Mac version of its popular DaVinci eMail
in the first quarter of 1994. DaVinci
eMail for the Macintosh 2.5 is a cross-
platform E-mail application tliat lets Mac
and PC users on the same NetWare net-
work exchange messages and access mail-
boxes from either type of computer.
The Mac version offers the same fea-
tures, administrative functions, and secu-
rity as the company’s DOS and Windows
versions. .Ml versions use the same E-mail
engine, database, and messaging technol-
ogy*. The Mac version includes a few new
features, such as balloon help and built-in
viewers, to make it familiar to Macintosh
users. Pricing for the xMac edition was not
available at press time.
DaVinci eMail for the Macintosh is
designed primarily to bring E-mail ser-
vices to the maverick Macintosh user
plugged into a network of PCs, but it can
also be used to set up an E-mail system
on an all-.Apple network running Net-
Ware for Macintosh. In either case it
must be installed on a dedicated PC serv-
er running NetWare.
DaVinci Systems (919/88 1 -4320) will
discontinue DaVinci Macintosh Access;
customers can upgrade to DaVinci for the
Macintosh.— MARTHA strizich
DaVinci eMail for the Macintosh lets users swap
messages with any other Mac or PC on the same
NetWare network.
Ethernet via SCSI
M ost external F/niERNEr adap-
ters must be plugged into an elec-
trical outlet, but not Sonic Systems’ com-
pact microSCSI, which weighs 5 ounces
and is a little bigger than a pack of ciga-
rettes. The tw'o microSCSI models — one
for PowerBooks ($449) and one for desk-
top Macs ($399) — plug into an Apple
Desktop Bus (ADB) port and draw power
through the port. Both models include
an ADB pass-through port in case you
have several ADB devices to plug in.
Available now, the microSCSI
adapters come with both thick and
lOBaseT connectors. Sonic Systems,
800/535-0725 in the United States and
Canada.— MARTHA strizich
For users on the go. Sonic Systems' compact
microSCSI Ethernet adapters draw power through
the ADB port, eliminating the search for an electri-
cal outlet.
New Fast-Packet
Gear Links LANs
I N 'EERESITD IN HICiH-SPEED WAN SER-
vices, but can’t justify costly T-1
access? Try low-speed switched multi-
megabit data semce (SMDS) and frame-
relay service.
Availal)le in large metropolitan areas
since 1991, SMDS is touted as a cost-sav-
ing alternative to private leased-line net-
works. Still, the connectionless .service of
up to 45 Mbps is an expensive way to ferry'
L.AN traffic across the public telephone
nenvork. So some telephone carriers such
as Pacific Bell are offering lower-speed
SMDS sendees — 64 Kbps or 56 Kbps,
versus the previous minimum of 1.17
Mbps — at more affordable rates.
MultiAccess (.ominiting Corporation
has developed a .synchronous communi-
cations adapter card to let Macintosh
users take advantage of the new services.
The SMDS'falk/DSO NuBus adapter
IN BRIEF
■ NetWare /Wac Remote
Novell has integrated remote dial-
in and shared dial-out capabilities,
Including AppleTalk, in NetWare
Connect, a NetWare Loadable
Module (NLM) for NetWare 3.X or
4.x that replaces NetWare Asyn-
chronous Communications Ser-
vices. It supports up to 64 commu-
nications ports on a single server,
Including X.25 and ISDN access
ports. $595 for 2 ports, $2195 for
8 ports, $5995 for 32 ports.
801/429-7000.
■ AAail Call at CompuServe
Now that CompuServe Information
Service's Mail Hub supports
SMF-71 (the latest version of Nov-
ell's Application Programmer's
Interface, which Is built into Net-
Ware Remote MHS 2.0), corporate
networks can use CompuServe as a
link in E-mail distribution systems.
Diverting E-mail users to a com-
mercial service could help unjam
network bottlenecks because peo-
ple who need remote access to
other network resources don't have
to compete with coworkers who
are just checking their mailboxes
from home, a field office, or a
hotel. 614/457-86CX).
■ LocalTalk Links to Token
Ring Dayna Communications is
shipping two bridges that connect
LocalTalk printers, Macintosh com-
puters, network modems— essen-
tially all LocalTalk devices except
routers — to Token Ring networks.
TokenPrint ($1099) connects one
or two LocalTalk devices to Token
Ring Type 1 or 3. TokenPrint Plus
($1399) can handle up to four
LocalTalk devices. 801/269-7394.
connects to any standard 56-Kbps
eSU/DSU to provide point-and-click
access to SMDS for individual xVIacs or
xMacs connected to .AppleTalk networks.
The company’s MCC-256FRS, a
synchronous communications adapter
card, lets Macs connect to frame-relay'
sendees at 56 Kbps. A streamlined version
of X.25 packet switching, frame relay
works well for LAN traffic that comes in
bursts.
Both $1 195 cards are scheduled for
release by the end of 1993 and include
software. MultiAccess Computing, 805/
964-2332.— MARTHA STRIZICH
MACWORLD February 1 994 1 8 1
WHAT THE
SIMPLE
NETWORK
MANAGEMENT
PROTOCOL
GAN DO FOR
YOU
REVEALED
Quick, no peeking: how many different
brands of equipment does your network
include? Did you remember all those dif-
ferent hubs? Ethernet cards? Servers and
routers? If you ran out of fingers before
you ran out of equipment, now is the time
to think seriously about centralizing your
network management.
Every hub, router, and server on the
network comes with its own management
program. Each tool works beautifully
with the equipment it’s designed to man-
age, but not at all with everything else.
So managers can end up with a hard disk
full of tools and no coherent picture of the
whole network. Which vendor made the
hub on the third floor? Is there a bridge
in the computer room, or is it a router?
Does that printer support TCP/IP?
SNMP, the Simple Network Man-
agement Protocol, is one w^ay to break out
of using proprietary netw^ork-manage-
ment tools and get a grip on your net-
work. But while the SNMP vision is
simple in theory — one management pro-
tocol, one management station, many dif-
ferent devices — in practice, implementing
SNMP can be tricky, especially on a Mac-
intosh network.
Originally created for TCP/IP net-
works, SNMP management software is
just beginning to appear for AppleTalk
and for the Mac. That not only limits how
useful SNMP can be on your Mac net-
work today, but it means you have to shop
carefully for software that works in your
environment.
Despite any complications, SNMP
promises to eventually unite not only
your diverse Macintosh network under a
single management station, but also your
entire multiplatform network. So even if
SNMP isn’t for you now, if your net-
work is growing, it’s important to keep a
finger on the pulse of this network-man-
agement standard.
To find out how useful Mac-based
SNMP software is today, I tested four
network-management software packages
tliat use SNMP: Caravelle’s NetWorks,
InterCon Systems’ WatchTower, Neon
Software’s LANsurveyor, and Network
Resources’ MultiGate Manager. I also
tested a sample of Mac network devices
and software that support SNMP over
AppleTalk and TCP/IP. But first, some
background.
SNMP Background
SNMP was invented in the late 1980s to
help manage the Internet, the TCP/IP-
based research and academic network; the
protocol has since become a de facto
standard for network management. In
theory, SNMP allows any management
station that speaks SNMP to monitor and
control any nemork device or computer
that understands SNMP. In practice, it’s
a little more complicated.
SNMP requires three pieces of soft-
ware: one for the administrator (network-
management software), and two for each
device you want to manage (an agent and
a management information base, or MIB).
(For more on agents and MIBs, see
“Understanding SNMP.”)
Unlike proprietary network-manage-
ment software, SNMP management soft-
ware doesn’t all come from one source.
A company that builds routers will write
its own SNMP agent and MIB, but your
management station is likely to come
from another source. The management
station and device software will not work
together unless both use the same trans-
port protocols.
182 February 1 994 MACWORLD
The Problem of Protocols
Originally, SNMP only ran over a TCP/
IP protocol stack, using UDP as the
transport protocol. For a network node,
router, hub, or server to be included in
an SNMP management scheme, the de-
vice had to be running TCP/IP.
Although TCP/IP is still by far the most
widely used transport for SNMP, there
is nothing inherent in SNMP that
requires it to run over TCP/IP. Today,
SNMP’s popularity has led to standards
for running SNMP over AppleTalk’s
DDP protocol (and others, such as Nov-
ell NetWare’s IPX and pure Ethernet).
So when you are looking for SNMP-
manageable equipment, it’s not enough
to know that a device supports SNMP.
You must also find out whether the
underlying protocol stack is compatible
with your diagnostic and management
software (see “What You Can Manage
with SNMP” to find out what protocols
major Mac equipment supports).
SNMP over AppleTalk
In theory, running SNMP over Apple-
Talk should allow you to manage any
AppleTalk network through any SNMP-
based management-station software.
Wliile some Mac network devices can be
monitored and controlled using SNMP
over AppleTalk, you currently have to
use a Macintosh-based management sta-
tion. (At press time, none of the major
management stations, such as Hewlett-
Packard’s OpenView or Sun Microsys-
tems’ SunNet Manager, both Unix-
based, supported SNMP transmission via
AppleTalk.)
And while Mac-based management
stations can pick up and send SNMP
messages via other protocols, such as
TCP/IP or Novell NetWare’s IPX, Mac
software packages aren’t yet as sophisti-
cated or as powerful as their Unix-based
cousins. So they can’t always interpret the
information they receive or control
SNMP-compliant network devices very
elegantly.
Therefore, a large network with both
TCP/IP and AppleTalk SNMP devices
could require two different SNMP-based
management stations, which thwarts the
purpose of using SNMP to centralize
network management.
SNMP 2, a new transport-indepen-
dent version of the standard, is supposed
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to solve this problem by making it possi-
ble for all SNMP stations to communi-
cate with all SNMP-compliant network
devices. Still, it’s not expected to be wide-
ly available for another couple of years.
/Vlanaging Macs with SNMP
Apple introduced four SNMP software
packages last year that allow you to man-
age and monitor networked Macintoshes
remotely, assuming your management
station is smart enough.
TCP/IP Connection for Macintosh
($59) consists of MacTCP 2.0.2, as well as
the SNMP-over-TCP/IP agent and Mac-
intosh iVlIBs. The SNMP agent and AIIB
let you fetch information, such as the sys-
tem version or hard disk capacity, from a
Macintosh running MacTCP, Apple’s
TCP/IP protocol stack.
TCP/IP Administration for Macin-
tosh ($ 1 99) includes the same software as
TCP/IP Connection, along with applica-
tions to configure MacTCP and the Mac-
intosh SNMP agent, some additional
documentation, and a TCP Ping pro-
gram — at last!
Apple lets a network manager buy
one copy of the TCP/IP Administration
product and use that to create floppy disks
with MacTCP and the Macintosh SNiVIP
agent and MIB to distribute to TCP/IP
users. Each user must have a TCP/IP
Connection hcense (which Apple sells in
quantity at a discount).
AppleTalk Connection for Mac ($39)
brings Apple’s newest AppleTalk stack
and its SNAlP-over- AppleTalk agent and
MIBs to the AppleTalk-connected Mac-
intosh. With extra tools and documen-
tation, AppleTalk Administration for
Macintosh ($199) works on the same
model as the TCP/IP package.
Apple wasn’t the first to come up with
an SNMP agent for the Mac, but by
including SNMP in the basic TCP/IP
and AppleTalk packages, Apple is trying
to promote SNMP as the standard way to
manage Macs. Also, AppleShare Pro
servers can transmit veiy^ limited data to
an SNMP workstation via TCP/IP today.
Apple is working on more fully featured
SNMP agents for all of its servers.
Is It Worth It?
Now that you know a litde about SNMP,
the ne.\t thing you should consider before
you start comparing products is, do you
need it?
SNMP can save you time and frus-
tration, but only if you’re managing a big
network. SNMP requires a substantial
investment of time on your part, to learn
the software, to configure it to your envi-
ronment, to fine-tune the software, and to
make use of the data you collect.
In other words, if your network con-
sists of five Macs and a LaserWriter,
SNMP is not for you. But if you have a
growing, expanding, and/or multiproto-
col net\\^ork, chances are you will need
SNMP, if not now, then in the future.
Management Stations: What
to Expect
Most network-management stations have
two main functions: monitoring and con-
figuration. A station monitors a nemork
by periodically polling each device and
taking action if there’s a problem. Some
stations simply test reachability; for exam-
ple, is the device still up and running?
Others can make more sophisticated
queries, checking error rates, throughput,
and other significant indicators of net-
work health.
When there’s a problem, the man-
agement station can take different actions:
it can write to a log file, sound an audio
alarm (like a beep or recorded sound),
send E-mail, or even page the network
manager with the bad news.
Management’s other task is configu-
ration. As you add new devices to the net-
work, and as the network status changes,
you must also change the factory defaults.
One common configuration is the Apple-
Talk zone name: newly installed Phase 2
AppleTalk routers must be told what their
AppleTalk zones are before they are used.
Bear in mind, however, that management
stations can only control network devices
to the extent that their agents and MIBs
will allow. (See “Understanding SNMP”
and “What You Can Manage with
SNMP” for more information.)
WatchTower InterCon Systems
Corporation’s WatchTower ($2495) is a
hare-bones SNMP management station
for the Macintosh. WatchTower supports
SNMP only over TCP/IP.
WatchTower begins the way a good
SNMP management station should, by
letting the network manager draw a sim-
ple map ot the network. But the program
doesn’t do much more than that. Net-
work monitoring is severely restricted.
No automatic device polling is available;
if you want to see whether a device is up
and running, you have to double-click on
the device icon each time.
WatchTower does construct some
graphs that show trends for TCP/IP
nodes. But you can track only five vari-
ables (TCP and UDP input and output
rates, as well as IP input rates), and that’s
not much help. WatchTower can also
construct real-time bar graphs showing
some traffic, but the choices are extreme-
ly limited and not all that useful.
Configuration is even more restrict-
ed. To configure a device using Watch-
Tower, you must know the exact SNMP
variable to change and its legal values.
I thought this version of Watch-
Tower was fun to play with, but it
wouldn’t be helpful to a network manag-
er trying to keep an eye on a large net-
work. Aside from the bugs (for example,
displaying two graphs at the same time
caused WatchTower to go wacko), this
version simply lacks die functions needed
in a network-management station. And it
certainly isn’t worth the high price.
Networks Caravelle Networks Cor-
poration’s Networks ($995) knows about
much more than just SNMP. Originally
designed to watch over an AppleTalk net-
work, the newest release, version 3.0, can
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InterCon Systems Corp., 703/709-
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monitor a network of computers and
devices that talk AppleTalk, Novell Net-
Ware’s IPX, Digital Equipment Corpo-
ration’s DECnet, TCP/IP, and SNMP
over both TCP/IP and AppleTalk. Net-
Works, however, is only a monitoring
tool; it doesn’t support any netivork con-
figuration (or Set) functions.
The Networks approach to monitor-
ing is based on a device list and a list of
notifications.The device fist is made up
of virtually anything on the network:
hubs, routers, workstations, printers,
modems. Unfortunately, you must make
the list yourself, one device at a time; it’s
a time-consuming process.
Networks checks the devices on the
list as often as you specify. If there’s a prob-
lem, Networks activates a notification
from another list.
Networks can notify you of prob-
lems in a variety of ways, including dis-
playing a dialog box on the Macintosh
screen; using MacinTalk to speak a mes-
sage; playing a recorded message or
sound; sending a message to a pager;
sending a message via modem to another
computer or bulletin board (such as
CompuSen^e); and sending mail using
184 February 1 994 MACWORLD
UNDERSTANDING SNMP
T he SNMP model for managing net-
works is based on three basic pieces
of software: agents, MIBs (management
information bases), and management
stations.
Agents are pieces of software that
run at each network device. They fetch
information stored in a database called a
management information base, also
stored at the device.
Management stations let you retrieve
and display information gathered from a
device's agent and MIB. Occasionally,
management stations can also control (or
Set In SNMP terms) those devices. Most
management stations today run on Unix-
based workstations, but more software Is
appearing for the Mac.
Each entry In a MIB is called a MIB
variable. For example, one common MIB
variable for the Macintosh Is sysDescr,
which describes system hardware and
software. If you use a management sta-
tion to retrieve {Get In SNMP terms) the
sysDescr variable for a Macintosh, you'll
get an answer like “Macintosh Quadra
800, System 7.1."
Depending on how sophisticated
your network-management station is, you
may have to request each bit of informa-
tion about different network devices sep-
QuickMail, Microsoft Mail, Simple Mail
Transfer Protocol (a Unix-based E-mail
system), or Apple’s new AOCE (Apple
Open Collaboration Environment) mail
included in System 7 Pro. That’s an
impressive list of choices.
Using Networks, the administrator
can keep a close eye on a very large, multi-
vendor network. I configured NetWorks
to query a particular MIB variable in one
nenvork router every 30 seconds and play
a recorded message on the Macinto.sh if
tlie router went over a certain threshold
(“Hey, die router is real busy now”). I also
instructed NetWorks to page the network
manager if the router went too deeply
into the danger zone. Because NetWorks
supports both numberic and alphanumer-
ic pngers, a network manager can actual-
ly see the router name and the traffic level
in the pager message.
LANsurveyor Neon Sofhvare’s LAN-
surveyor (S3 95 for five zones, S695 for
unlimited zones) is an AppleTalk map-
ping and monitoring tool that can use
SNMP over AppleTalk. LANsurveyor’s
forte is map drawing. Set it loose on an
AppleTalk network and LANsurveyor
will find all of the routers, pick appropri-
arately, or you may be able to issue many
requests at once. Likewise, the way the
information is displayed and Interpreted
will depend on your software manage-
ment station.
You can also store information that
the SNMP agent can't gather from your
computer In a MIB variable. For example,
you might Set the sysLocatlon variable on
a particular Macintosh to be Building 73A,
Room 117. A manager who later requests
that variable will find out where the sys-
tem is located.
Besides the basic Get and Set opera-
tions, SNMP supports Traps, event notifi-
cations sent by a network device's agent
to the management station. Traps help
managers to keep an eye on the network
without constantly asking every device for
status information. For example, one trap
is the ColdStart, which a router's agent
sends out every time the router boots up.
Again, what a management station does
when It receives a trap varies. It might
simply note the Information in a file or
send the administrator an E-mail or a
pager message, or the trap might trigger
some other action, such as downloading
device-configuration information.
There are many kinds of MIBs
defined for SNMP. The basic MIB, called
ate icons, and try to lay them out into a
logical map of the network. Masochists
can ask LANsurveyor to find every
AppleTalk node, not just routers.
Once you’ve built a map with LAN-
surveyor, getting information out of the
SNMP MIB is easy. Double-click on a
device icon and up comes a window that
lets you look at that device’s AppleTalk
information, SNMP MIB information,
and notes and comments that you may
have added to the map.
LANsurveyor has fewer monitoring
and notification options than NetWorks.
LANsun^eyor will watch over a list of net-
work devices and send notifications if a
device becomes unavailable or if Apple-
Talk traffic error rates go above a thresh-
old you define. You can send notifications
in a variety of ways, including writing to
a log file, displaying a dialog box, and
making other visual changes to the map;
playing sounds; sending pages; or sending
mail via QuicLMail.
One nice feature of LANsurveyor is
its linkage to other Mac applications. You
can associate any device with a Macin-
tosh application. Then you can option-
double-click on the device’s icon to
MIB II (it replaced MIB I) Includes a basic
set of variables for any network device.
Most vendors support all or part of the
standard MIB, but many vendors also
define a private MIB that works only with
their equipment. Private MIBs usually
Include special statistics or configuration
options that aren't defined In the MIB I or
II. Not every management station works
with every private MIB.
Most network devices support more
than one MIB. For example, Apple's
SNMP agent for the Macintosh supports
almost all of MIB II, an AppleTalk MIB,
and a new MIB called the Macintosh Sys-
tem MIB. The Macintosh System MIB Is a
private MIB that reports extensively on
nearly every aspect of the Macintosh,
Including:
• file information for all files in the System
Folder
• Information about all applications on
the system
• type of NuBus cards attached
• SCSI devices attached
• all managed services (like an E-mail
server) on the computer
• volume information for all mounted
volumes
• information about the currently select-
ed printer.
launch that application. I used this feature
to link Compatible Systems Corpora-
tion’s configuration utility to its RISC-
Router 3000E.
Without a doubt, the coolest part
of L.ANsurvcyor is its automated net-
work-mapping capabilities. I took LAN-
surveyor to an AppleTalk network with
several hundred nodes, and let it rip.
Minutes later, I had a full map of the
network, complete with device names,
links between routers, and other useful
infonnation.
Neon Software also makes Router
Check ($895), a complementary tool that
helps keep an eye on AppleTalk routers
using SNMP-over-AppleTalk, as well as
several different proprietary management
protocols supported by the routers.
AAultiGate Manager The most bug-
ridden of the products I reviewed. Net-
work Resources Corporation’s MultiGate
Manager ($2995) still has the potential to
be a powerful network monitor. Its good
iise of color and graphics brings many of
the features of larger SNMP management
stations to the Mac.
The software does not draw network
maps, but it lists TCP/IP netu^ork devices
/MACWORLD February 1 994 1 8 5
NETWORKS: SNMP REVEALED
What You Can iUlanage with SNJIAP
Phone
f Agent
Device Type
MfBs Suppdrted
Transports
Cat/Sei-
AppleCdmpiitef '
408/996-1010.
800/732-3131
TCP/IP Connection
for Macintosh
Macintosh
MIB II, Macintosh System MIB, AppleTalk MIB
; UDP
•/•
AppleTalk Connection,
for Macintosh
Macintosh
MiB lI, Macintosh System MIB, AppleT aik MIB
DDP
•/•
APT
, 301/831-1182
ComTalkHF,HX
router
1 Mi 11, AppleTalk MIB, AppleTalk MIB II,
Ethernet MIB, Generic Interface MIB
UDP. DDP,
Ethernet
‘ . ^ant£ /
408/435-8388,
800/662-9686
AsantdHijb 1012,
AsantaBrfdge 1012
Ethernet hub
MIB 1, MIB II (subset), Asanti§ MIB.
Ethernet Hub MIB, Bridge MiB
UDP
•/•
Asant6Hub2072
Ethernet hub
MIB I. MIB II (subset). Asante MIB,
Ethernet Hub MIB
UDP
•/•
Cayman
617/494-1999
GatorStarHR
router/Ethernet
hub
MIB It, AppleTalk MIB. Ethernet MIB,
Cayman MIB
UDP. DDP
•/o
Gatorbox EX, CS, GX
router
MIB II, AppleTalk MIB, Ethernet MIB,
Cayman MIB
UDP, DDP
#/0
Compatible Systems
301/931-1182,
EtherRoute-TCPil
router
MIB II. AppleTalk MIB, AppleTalk MIB II
UDP, DDP
m/6
800/842-0626
RI5CRouter3000E
router
MIB il
UDP. DDP
m/o
Far^ipn Computing
510/814-5000 '
lnterRoute/5
router
MIB II, Farallon Common MIB, IF Extensions
MIB, AppleTalk MIB, Ethernet MIB
UDP, DDP
m/m
StarRouter
router/ LocalTalk
hub
MIB II, Farallon Common MIB, Farallon StarRouter .
MIB, AppleTalk MIB, IF Extensions MIB
UDP, DDP
m/m
. ' . i ~ , ■ -.1- . .
Ether 10-T StarControlier
Ethernet hub
MIB II, IF Extensions MIB, Ethernet MiB, AppleTalk
MIB. Farallon Common MIB, Ether 10T StarControlier
Private MIB, 802.3 Repeater & AAAU MIB
UDP. DDP
m/m
; Network Resources
408/383-9300
MultiGate Hub 2
Ethernet hub
MIB II. Repeater MIB, Bridge MIB, PPP MIB, Ethernet
MIB, MAU MIB, RS-232 MIB, NRC Hub2 MIB
UDP
: : ' ^ , l
MultiGate Hub
Ethernet hub
MIB 11, Repeater MIB, Bridge MIB, NRC Hub MIB
UDP
•/•
MultiGate Hob 1/1+
Ethernet hub
MIB 11; Repeater MIB, Bridge MIB, Ethernet MIB,
MAU MIB, RS-232 MIB, NRC Hubi MIB
UDP
■ m/m
Shiva
617/270-8300,
FastPath 5R. FastPath 5
router
MIB It, AppleTalk MIB. Ethernet MIB. Shiva MIB
UDP, DDP
m/m
800/458-3550
• = yes; O = no.
Listed here Is a sampling of the different ways Macintosh networking companies support SNMP. Before you buy a network-management station, make sure It sup
ports the same transports and MIBs as your networking equipments' agents. While most agents ship free with hardware, Apple sells its Mac agents separately.
in tabular format, along with device inter-
face status, network addresses, any device
traps, and an alarm status field. (It doesn’t
support SNMP-over-AppleTalk.)
MultiGate Manager keeps an eye on
your network in two ways. Devices in the
network manager window are polled at
whatever rate you specify. If a device
becomes unavailable, you’ll see that on
the display. The display also shows the
status of hubs and routers by displaying a
series of dots by each device, one per
interface. If the interface is up, the dot is
green; if down, the dot is red.
Trend/threshold windows let you
continuously monitor the network
through strip charts showing SNMP vari-
ables from one or more devices. For
example, a strip chart showing the
throughput of each port on a router shows
which attached network is experiencing
the heaviest load.
MultiGate Manager can use Apple
events to send alarms through Ex Machi-
na’s Notify pager software. For example,
the software can page you with the mes-
sage “server disk nearing capacity” if the
AppleShare server’s free disk space falls
below 1MB. Plus you can search for
TCP/IP devices by network number. The
software also lets you view and set indi-
vidual MIB variables.
What to Do?
Now that SNMP is becoming an effective
way to watch over your network, what —
or if — ^you should buy depends on your
needs. That’s why I can’t really recom-
mend one Mac SNMP product over the
others. If you have a small network, don’t
do anything. You’ve probably got all the
AppleTalk-based tools you need to keep
everything under control. (Proprietary
tools such as TechWorks’ GraceLAN
Network Manager, for software updates,
and Asante’s AsanteNet, for monitoring
Asante hubs, are better choices.)
If SNMP is in your future, set your
sights low and check out Caravelle’s Net-
Works. As a monitoring tool, it does the
best job of the products tested. And it lets
you mix SNMP and other systems such
as AppleTalk in the same monitoring sta-
tion. That way, you don’t have to jump
into SNMP agents for everything right
away; you can take advantage of SNMP’s
features as they become available.
If you’re in an AppleTalk-only envi-
ronment, Neon Software’s LANsurveyor
draws high-quality network maps and
notifies you if an AppleTalk node be-
comes unavailable. But a really useful pro-
gram would be a cross between LAN-
surveyor and Networks, offering both
automated network mapping and sophis-
ticated, multiprotocol monitoring.
Macintosh versions of the SNMP
management stations still have a way to
go. If you want a full-fledged manage-
ment station, you’re going to have to
leave your Macintosh desktop behind and
jump into a Unix-based or Open VMS-
based product. Although both MultiGate
Manager and WatchTower show prom-
ise, neither one is ready for a production
network environment, m
JOEL SNYDER is senior analyst with Opus One, a
consulting firm in Tucson, Arizona. He specializes In
networks and the international aspects of infor-
mation technology.
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TIIE ONE MAJOR SYSTEM COMPONENl' A
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when you’re on the road and you really
need a printout? You could connect your
PowerBook to a printer at the site you’re
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Writer) are ink-jet printers; they squirt
tiny droplets of ink onto the paper.
All the printers can run on batteries;
both the DeskWriter and the DoveWriter
use standard camcorder batteries (check
carefully; some camcorder batteries look
the same but have incompatible connec-
tors or shapes). None of the printers can
use a PowerBook battery or power supply.
All print quietly; you can easily carry on
a conversation while printing.
Size, Shape, and Weight
With one exception — the DoveWriter —
the size and shape of each printer pretty
much demands its own carrying case or a
large carrying case for the PowerBook
with a special printer compartment. The
Citizen and Dove printers are roughly half
the bulk of the other three. The Citizen
is the smallest and lightest, but its brick
shape does not fit easily into a shoulder
bag with a PowerBook. Because of its
unique design, the DoveWriter unfolds
into a flat, 1 -inch-thick notebook shape
for carrying, so it fits into many carrying
cases along with a PowerBook. For pro-
tection against scratches, it comes with a
simple plastic slipcase, much like Apple’s
protective cases for PowerBook batteries.
The MobileWriterPS may be the heavi-
est at 9.5 pounds, but it is the only Post-
Script printer. (If you can put up with very
slow printing. Freedom of Press Classic —
Si 49, from ColorAge, 508/667-8585,
800/437-3336 — can do PostScript pro-
cessing on your PowerBook and send the
image to a QuickDraw printer.)
Printing Speed
In my own speed tests, the DeskWriter
310 won by a considerable margin, pro-
ducing 1.67 pages per minute, the same
speed as a desktop DeskWriter. The
Apple Portable Style Writer and Mobile-
WriterPS could each manage almost a
page a minute, about the speed of the
original (discontinued) desktop Style-
Writer. The Citizen trailed and the Dove-
Writer brought up the rear at only a fifth
the speed of the DeskWriter. None of
these printers are fast enough to compete
with even a low-end laser printer.
Sheet Feeders
Faster printing is preferable, of course,
but a sheet feeder can make waiting for a
slow printer more tolerable by letting you
do something else while the printer works.
Of the portable printers, only the Citizen
and MobileWriterPS have built-in sheet
feeders. The Citizen’s 5-page feeder isn’t
capacious, but reloading every 5 pages
beats feeding in single sheets; the Citizen
also accepts an optional external 30-page
feeder. With its internal 80-page feeder,
the MobileWriterPS doesn’t need an ex-
ternal feeder. The remaining printers ac-
cept optional external sheet feeders, but
these are all so bulky that you’ll probably
leave them behind when you travel.
Image Quality
The Citizen is the standout here — it pro-
duces the sharpest edges and smoothest
blacks. The DoveWriter (using its higher-
quality single-pass ribbon rather than its
multipass one) comes in second, followed
by the MobileWriterPS. There’s no
smearing with these three; the ink bonds
well to paper even after repeated folding.
The ink-jets don’t do as well, partly be-
cause liquid ink tends to wick along paper
continues
MACWORLD February 1 994 1 9 1
NETWORKS: POWERBOOK NOTES
Portable Printers Compared
Apple Portable
StyleWriter
DoveWriter 1
Portable
MobUeWritWPS
Notebook
Printer II
' Cbrapaiiy
Apple Computer
Hewlett-Packard. '
Dove Computer
MannesmannTally
Corporation
Citizen America
Phone .
408/996-1010
2d8/323-2551 “
919/763-7918
206/251-5624
310/453-0614
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800/752-0900 .
800/849-3297
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none
> List price ' ...
$439
$379
$399
$999 ■■■
$399
Weight (printer plus cables
and adapters, in pounds)
5.94(4.5+1.44)
5>t(4.3+1.1)
4.34 (2.9+1.44)
9.5(83+15)
3.35 (2.6+0.75)
Site (in inchesj/volutne^
(in cubic Inches)
12.2X8.7X1.9/202
-11X5.75X2.5/173
12X8.5X1/102
11.4X8,7X23/228
11.7X4.1X2/96
Printer-to-Mac
connection
parallel; serial
converter Included
LocalTatk(RS-422)
parallel; serial
converter included
Locarralk.(RS-422);
parallel
LocalTalk (RS-422);
parallel
Built'ifi sheet feeder
none
none
none
SOshe^ '
5 sheets
Optipnai ei^mal
sheet feeder
50 sheets, $85
60 sheets, $76-$99
20 sheets. $99
none
^ 30 sheets, $69
Garbing case
not sold by Apple
$99 option
plastic case included
$50 option
; $49 option
Printing method
inkjet
inkjet
thermal transfer
thenfn^. trailer ■
thermal fusion
PostScript printing
no
no
no
yes .
i: no
Color capMty :
none
3^bte-: •,
none
none ’ '•
. ; 4-color
Resolution (in dots per inch)
360
360
,300- ;■
360
. Text image quality:
fair
podrtof^r^- . ' -i-' V:;'
fair
;feir
V good
Ha^ne inii^ qu^ity ^
fair
poortof^r,' .y. . y. '> •>
can't print halftones
fair . : . . r.
fair
AAju^ns (left/light/ ^
top/jE)bttom, in iriches)
0.31/0.18/0.1/0.58
q.i3/di4/b.28/o.4y:y^
0.43/0.05/0.18/0.71
o,23/().68/(xb6/6::i4
0.08/0.4/0.16/0,54
Pages printed per minute
0.85
MS?
0.36
0.95
’ 0.63
Pages per battery charge
accoiding to mariufactur^
50
100^ '.yV.;;':-
25-35
150 . .
30-50
Black ribbonor ink. unit
cost/capadty
$19/500 pages
$21,^/^P^(M^.^. . .y
$5.99/24 pages
(see text)
$75for 5ribbphs/; :; ^
750 pages total . : y . :
$4.99/30-50 pages
Ink or ribbon cost per
$0,038
$0,044. ^
$0.25 (see text)
;$0>I0;
$0.10-$.17
fibers. Nevertheless, the Portable Style-
Writer produces a foirly clean image, al-
though its ink smears readily if it gets
damp. HP’s DeskWriter ink hardly
smears at all, but tiny stray droplets pro-
duce a diffuse haze around the image,
making it look coarse and splotchy. The
DeskWriter wets the paper so thoroughly
when printing large black or color regions
that the paper buckles and pleats, more so
than with Ae Style Writer. In the printed
areas, the feed tractor leaves tooth marks;
the DeskWriter cannot use rubber rollers
because of its wet ink.
All but the DoveWriter can print
halftones. (Dove says it will add halftone
printing with a future software upgrade.)
Printing Costs and Supplies
All the portables can use plain paper, with
vaiying results, and all can produce trans-
parencies for overhead projectors. The
thermal printers produce the best results
on smooth, well-calendered paper, but or-
dinary photocopy paper (usually half a
cent per page) works satisfactorily. The
ink-jets do best with short-fiber paper, al-
though the StyleWriter is fairly tolerant of
typical office paper for photocopying. The
DeskWriter is very sensitive to paper type;
perhaps that’s why Hewlett-Packard is the
only printer vendor that also sells paper.
Its short-fiber paper (CX Jet) goes for
about 4 cents a page; you’ll get the very
best results from HP’s LX Jet series glossy
paper, but it sells for an eye-popping
$1.20 a sheet.
For ink-jets the ink costs about 4
cents a page, much less than the ink for
thermal printers, which costs about 10
cents a page. The DoveWriter’s ribbon
costs depend on which type of ribbon it’s
using. Its higher-quality, single-pass rib-
bon costs 2 1 cents a page, but if you refill
it, the cost drops to 10 cents a page; its
multiple-pass ribbon, with lower print
quality, costs 6 cents a page to run — 3
cents if refilled.
Ink-jet cartridges can be refilled with
third-party kits, lowering costs further.
Although Apple and HP discourage their
use, the better refills produce results as
good as — and sometimes superior to —
those of new cartridges. Both Apple and
HP ink cartridges are readily available ev-
erywhere. The portable ink-jets share the
same cartridges as their desktop siblings,
with one exception: HP’s high-capacity
black DeskWriter cartridge works in the
DeskWriter 310 but should be removed
before air travel because its ink bladder
may leak with changing air pressure.
Other DeskWriter cartridges use a sponge
ink-feeder, which is unaffected by air
pressure changes.
When you’re traveling with a thermal
printer, you should bring all the ribbons
you think you’ll need; few stores stock
suppHes, although Citizen’s nbbons are
the easiest to find.
Printing in Color
Two of the printers can produce color
output — good enough for typical business
charts and drawings, less satisfactory for
photographs and halftones. The Desk-
Writer 310 prints in color as easily as it
does in black, but much more slowly,
about five to ten minutes a page. Its three-
color (CMY — cyan, magenta, yellow) pro-
cess produces a somewhat muddy black
that’s a composite of aU three colors. A
page with 20 percent ink coverage costs 3 1
cents for the ink.
The Citizen’s four-color (CMYK)
process makes for superior output, but it’s
even slower than the DeskWriter and
much more expensive to run — about
$1.55 for a color page. The Citizen’s un-
continues
192 February 1994 MACWORLD
Vol. 3. Issue No. 7
ews
Apple Trees
Bear Fruit For
50 Years
is done by spraying chemicals
that damage about half of the
I trees blossoms. A chemical
! that is akeady registered by
I the Environmental Protecb^
Agerxy for use on other crops
Color is the key to
picking fruit at its
peak. Bright reds,
yellows, greens, or
oranges tell you
that harvest time
has arrived.
I twelve months out of the year ^
• In temperate latitudes of all {
I continents. Until the early
I 1 900's apples were not in sea-
' son during the summer
I months. A breakthrough in the
j 1 940's at Cornell University
I Agncultural CoBego with con-
, trolled atmosphere storage
< extended the growing season
[ yeanround.
I Loft alone an appb tree will
j yield a largo crop one year and
I few fruit the next. The apple •
I tree voluntarily sheds some |
' apples, but to truly counteract I
I this eflect orchardlsts thin their |
' trees each spring. This thinningi
can kkely be a safe and effec-
tive spray. Several of the test-
ed products have been found
to effectively damage apple
flowers so that they cannot be
poltnaled. This can be dorw
without harming bees, which
are responsible for the pollina-
Continuedpg 6
/\pple Trees
Bear Fruit For
50 Years
I I '
^ Focus
On Color
is done by spraying chemicals
that damage about half of the
trees blossoms. A chemical
that is akeady registered by
the Environmental Protect!^
Agency for use on other crops
Color is the key to
picking fruit at its
peak. Bright reds,
yellows, greens, or
oranges tell you
that harvest time
has arrived.
ue to do so
for about
fifty years.
Apples are
now grown
twelve months out of the year i
in temperate latitudes of all •
continents. Until the early |
1900's apples were not in sea - 1
son durit^ the summer *
months. A breakthrough in the \
1 940‘s at Cornell University i
Agricultural College with cotv |
trollod atn>osphere storage j
extended the growing season |
year-round.
can likely be a safe and effec-
tive spray. Several of the test-
ed products have been found
to effectively damage apple
flowers so that they cannot be
pollinated. This can be done
k
Loft alone an appio tree will
yield a largo crop one year and j I
few fruit the next. The apple
tree voluntarily sheds some
apples, but to truly counteract
tWs effect orcharrlsts thin their I without harming bees, which
trees each spring. This thinningi are responsible for the poina-
CcfUinu 0 d pg. 6
S60
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Apples vs. Apples
Until now, your hish-quality color scans for
publication and four-color printing were usually
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Scanner from Microtek, so you can branch out and do
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The ScanMaker 45t produces high-quality scans and sepa-
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But there’s more than cost-savings.
Consider the time saved in producing
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Priced thousands less than its nearest competitors, the
ScanMaker 45t will soon pay for itself — who knows,
maybe on your first multiple-image project.
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usual ribbon consists of 8-inch color seg-
ments; it must constantly wind ahead to
whatever color is needed. As a result,
when you print pages that contain mini-
mal color, whole sections of the color rib-
bon are never used. With considerable
fussing, you can avoid this waste: print the
bulk of the page with a black ribbon and
switch to a color ribbon just before the
printer reaches the section that requires
color. Fundamentally, the Citizen is a
black-and-white printer that can do the
occasional nice-looking color job, whereas
the DcskWriter can print Icss-attractivc
color, but effortlessly.
Sharing and Compatibility
None of these portable printers is likely to
be shared by multiple Macs, but the
MobileWriterPS is a full-fledged Local-
Talk PostScript printer and is easily
shared. The Citizen emulates Apple’s
desktop Style Writer and can use its driver
software, including Apple’s GrayShare
printer-sharing software. The Apple Por-
table StyleWriter and the DoveWriter are
both parallel-interface printers and come
with a GDT Softworks serial-to-parallel
converter cable. Out of the box, neither
can be shared, although GDT (604/291-
9121, 800/663-6222) offers a $90 software
upgrade, PowerPrint/SW, that enables
sharing any printer or modem connected
to a serial port.
All except the DeskWriter 310 can be
easily used as a parallel-port DOS/Win-
dows printer. (HP sells a separate Desk-
Jet 3 10 for the DOS market.) Indeed, the
Apple Portable StyleWriter is simply a
relabeled Canon BJlO-sx printer, nearly
identical to the BJ-lOex that has long been
available in the DOS market. By bundl-
ing its Apple Font Pack, Apple makes
its model a little more attractive than
an equivalent paekage assembled from
Canon and GDT products. For its print
engine, the DoveWriter uses a Fujitsu
Print Parmer Portable.
The Portable StyleWriter and Dove-
Writer come with AC power adapters that
work only with North American voltages;
you’ll need a second adapter or a trans-
former for worldwide use. The other
printers come with universal adapters.
Should You Buy One?
If you don’t already own a desktop printer,
should you make one of these portables
your only printer? Maybe. The two most
popular low-end printers, Apple’s Style-
Writer and Hewlett-Packard’s Desk-
Writer, come in both portable and desk-
top versions that are nearly equivalent,
with identical image quality and ink-
cartridge costs. Choosing a portable in-
stead of a desktop version means making
two compromises: the portables have
smaller-capacity (and usually optional)
paper feeders, and they cost about 20 per-
cent more. In their favor, the portables are
truly dual-use printers, suitable for an of-
fice and for travel. Even if you already
have a desktop printer and rarely need
to print on the road, you still might con-
sider either the Citizen Notebook Printer
II or the DeskWriter 310 for its color
printing capability.
For PowerBook users who must fre-
quently print when they travel, my top
pick is the Citizen Notebook Printer II
because it has the best image quality in a
small, light package. But its running costs
are high — especially for color — and it’s no
speed demon, although in most cases the
efficiency of having a built-in sheet feeder
cancels out its sluggish performance. Each
of the five has its strong points; you can’t
go far wrong with any of them, m
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column. His books include The Apple Macintosh Book
(Microsoft Press, 1992).
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THE DESKTOP CRITIC
BY DAVID
f EP, THE MAC IS TEN YEARS
old — as measured in people
years. In dog years, that’s 70.
But in technology years, it’s
more like 700 years.
If you doubt my math, try
to imagine the world of Mac-
intosh a decade ago. Macwoj'ld
editorials complained that “a
fully loaded System folder can
easily weigh in at 200K.” Pro-
grams called MacSpell, Multi-
plan, and Lode Runner roamed the earth.
“The Love Boat” was still on the air.
Oh, the progress we’ve made! Oh, the
richness of choice we have today! Oh,
the money we’ve blown on programs we
never use! This is no industry for the
weak-kneed; of tlie 101 companies whose
products were listed in an early Mac Con-
nection ad, 84 are now out of business.
(Surprise! Microsoft is still doing fine.)
What determines whether a product
will survive? This month, I thought it
might be instructive to have a look at a
handful of products that have remained on
the market into the Mac’s second decade.
And a few that didn’t.
And how did I select the products?
Was it a scientific lab evaluation? A stra-
tegic demographic overview? A careful
representative survey?
Nah. I picked whatever I felt like.
FileAAaker
Born: January 1985, by Forethought,
at $199.
Sold today by: Claris, as FileMaker Pro
2.1, at $399.
History: Believe it or not, FileMaker
started out as the Mac version of a DOS
program by Leading Edge. But that far-
seeing company scoffed at the notion of
Macintosh software, choosing to bank in-
stead on the hot new computer from
IBM — a little number called ^e PCjr.
The four programmers, e.x-Wang
employees calling themselves Nashoba
Systems, therefore struck a deal with a
tiny publisher called Forethought. The
program, FileMaker, was the 23rd Mac
product brought to market. When Mi-
crosoft gobbled up Forethought in 1987,
it made Nashoba a paltry offer for File-
POGUE
The Test of Time
A decade ofp7vducts that keep on ticking — or don V
Maker. (Microsoft obviously didn’t want
FileMaker to outshine its own power-
house database program, the now-de-
ceased Microsoft File. I tell ya — this in-
dustry is just full of farseeing executives.)
Nashoba reclaimed the program, sold
it under the company’s own name for a
year, and finally (in 1988) succumbed to
a lucrative offer from Claris. The pro-
gram, then called FileMaker Four, was re-
named FileMaker U, to the complete con-
fusion of everybody everywhere.
Key to longevity: FileMaker had plenty of
worthy competition in its early days: such
forgotten classics as MacLion, PFSiFile,
and IstBase. But FileMaker took full ad-
vantage of the Mac’s graphic possibilities.
Furthermore, FileMaker offered nonper-
manence: you could change your mind
about anything at any time. Contrast this
with programs like PFS:File, which, when
you tried to change the layout of your in-
formation, warned that “you may lose
some or all of your data.”
Stuffit
Born: August 1987, by Raymond Lau,
at $15.
Sold today by: Aladdin Systems, as Stuff-
it Deluxe 3.0, at $120. (A shareware ver-
sion is still priced at $25.)
History: Stuffit’s original programmer
wasn’t exactly a grizzled veteran of per-
sonal computing; when Raymond Lau
wrote this classic file-squeezer, he was 15
years old. Lau wrote the program for his
own use, never suspecting that his little
after-school experiment would become a
lucrative data-highway juggernaut.
Within a year, Stuffit was the stan-
dard for Mac compression. Lau wanted
time for side activities (such as going to
MIT and having a life). He offered Stuffit
to Software Ventures, whose leaders (ad-
hering to the tradition of Failing to Know
a Good Thing If It Bites You) turned it
down. In 1989 productless Aladdin Sys-
tems saw the light and took this share-
ware-program-that-could commercial.
Key to longevity: At the time of Stuffit’s
introduction, the only Mac compression
program was Packit. Lau’s program was
faster, compressed tighter, and preserved
the folder structure of the
compressed files. On top of
all this, the thing was share-
ware (and if you only
wanted to //wstuff files, it
was free).
No doubt about it: if
you want your program to
become a standard, nothing
beats (1) making it better
than the competition and
(2) giving it away.
Aldus PageMaker
Born: July 1985, by Aldus,
at $495.
Sold today by: Aldus, as
PageMaker 5.0, at $895.
Key to longevity: Oh, good
Lord, we all know why
PageMaker made it big. It
was the first page-layout program for the
Mac, right? Early bird gets the worm.
Actually, nope. PageMaker was the
third page-layout program (after Mac-
Publisher and ReadySetGo). What made
it the colossal, industry-changing success
it is today was. as Aldus president Paul
Brainerd puts it, “a three-legged stool: the
hardware, good luck, and timing.”
The hardware, of course, was the
LaserWriter. In yet another case of execu-
tive myopia, there was a movement inside
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Apple to kill the LaserWriter project.
Who’d buy a printer for $7000?
I'herefore, the LaserWriter product
manager needed FageAlaker as much as
vice versa. Brainerd worked frantically
behind the scenes with Adobe and Apple,
dreaming up the brand-new buzzword
desktop publishing. In a national tour remi-
niscent of Bill and Al’s campaign bus ride,
the little company of 12 people trained
dealers, educated the market, and gave
interviews.
There are three incredible aspects of
yVldus today: (1) desktop publishing is
nearly a $3 billion market; (2) Brainerd
still runs Aldus; and (3) they still haven’t
tacked Pro onto PageMaker’s name.
QuickDex
Born: June 1987, by Casady & Greene,
at $35.
Sold today by: Casady & Greene, as
QuickDex II, at $49.95.
History: Apple programmer Bill Atkinson
demonstrated a little program called
QuicklMle (a tiny 9K address-book pro-
gram) to programmers Robin Casady and
Michael CJreene. On the spot, they de-
cided to create a desk accessory version.
Key to longevity: Unlike other phone-
book programs, QuickDex doesn’t have
separate fields (blanks) for City, Street,
Zip, and so on. Instead, you can type any
info on each card, including your own
notes (“met on plane; has terrible toupee”
or whatever). Result: find a phone num-
ber in QuickDex — even with thousands of
names typed in — instantaneously.
Still, QuickDex isn’t nearly as full-fea-
tured as the more recent programs like
TouchBase or Now Contact. So how
come everybody still uses it?
My theory: You can’t export free-
form cards to a field-based program.
Therefore, QuickDex will probably be
with us forever simply because
it’s too much trouble to switch.
Lotus Jazz
Born: August 1985, by Lotus,
at $595.
Died: June 1988
History: OK. You’re Lotus.
You come out with Lotus
1-2-3 — boffo smash hit. You
follow up with Symphony — in-
stant triumph. So now you try
a product for the Mac — inte-
grated word processor, spread-
sheet, graphics, database, tele-
com, all crammed, impres-
sively, into 512K of memory.
You predict it’ll be running on half of all
the Macs in America.
Key to its demise: You, too, can repeat the
Jazz experience with these simple steps:
(1) release tlie product a year late; (2) leave
out the very features that made 1-2-3 a
success (macros, power, and speed); (3)
require exceptional Mac horsepower
(5 12K and a second floppy disk drive); (4)
make the memory situation so fragile that
the word processor cops out after 1 7 pages
and occasionally declines to carry out mi-
nor commands that require too much
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nificance as the unofficial first vanguard of
software reviewers shouldn’t be underes-
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Cauzin Softstrips
Born: October 1985, by Cauzin, at S199.
Died: February 1987.
History: Softstrips were glorified bar codes
that could be published in a magazine or
photocopied. If you owned the Softstrip
Reader, which looked something like a
16-inch-long fluorescent bulb in a hot-
dog bun, you could scan these printed
strips into your Mac to get a file of infor-
mation. And lo, the icon for the file you’d
just scanned would appear on the desktop.
In its ads, Cauzin waxed rhapsodic.
“All your favorite books and magazines”
would publish strips. Tiny shareware pro-
grams appeared right in the ads. In one ad,
Cauzin even pitched Softstrips as a way to
transfer data benveen PCs and Macs.
Key to its demise: Well, there was the
chicken-and-the-egg syndrome, of course;
nobody would buy a reader until there
were enough published strips, but nobody
would publish strips until . . . you get the
idea. Mainly, though, the Softstrips tech-
nology was slow and fussy. Each printed
strip contained 3K of information, and
took V/i minutes to scan.
Hey, but it could still work, right?
Sure. Your Word 5.1 upgrade comes in
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paper ... 671 sheets of it. No problem.
It’d only take 84 consecutive hours to scan.
TrueForm
Born: August 1989, by Spectrum Digital
Systems, at $495.
Died: 1991, as Adobe TrueForm.
History: For a nation obsessed with filling
out forms, TrueForm seemed to be a fore-
runner of things to come. It let you add
on-screen blanks to the scanned image of
a paper form. The result was you could
bypass the painstaking task of re-creating
a real-world form on the screen simply for
the purpose of typing info into it. Adobe
bought the program from Spectrum
(nope, not John Sculley’s Spectrum) in
1989, revamped it, and entered the mar-
ketplace later that year.
Key to its demise: It wasn’t the software
that failed, but the market. TrueFonn and
Claris’s SmartForm (also defunct) got
good reviews, were well promoted, and
worked well — for all 17 people in the
forms-design industry. (“It turned out to
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BY STEVEN LEVY
Ten Years After
Did Macintosh change the world? Yes.
LMOST KXAC'I'LY I KN YEARS
ago I first saw Macintosh, but
I remember the clay c]iiite viv-
idly. On assignment for Rolling
Stom% I visited Handley 3, de-
velopment headquarters for
the self-proclaimed pirates
producing the much-hally-
hooed machine. And I was
blown away, not once hut
twice. First, of course, the
source was that irresistible 14-
inch-high box that said “Welcome to
Macintosh”: the coolest chunk of technol-
og)' rd ever come across.
The second mind-bender was the
team that created Macintosh. Not only
were they a tremendously smart and am-
bitious group of wizards, but also they
were making some remarkable claims
about their creation. Basically, their con-
tention was that Macintosh was going to
change the world, \\4iile under their spell
in the corridors of Handley 3, 1 went along
with this, figuring that when 1 returned to
the harsh winter canyons of New York
City, I could reaffirm my cynicism, and
reevaluate this nonsense with the proper
measure of scorn.
This did not happen. To my surprise,
I wound up accepting their claim: Macin-
tosh was that rare product that was des-
tined to make an impact, not only on the
lives of its users, hut on the culture itself.
Ten years later, we can soberly assess its
impact. Did Macintosh really change the
world? Yes.
In Days of Old
To understand how this happened, we
first must immerse ourselves in the mind-
set of pre-Macintosh life. Monsters ruled
the desktop. Oh, the people who used
those machines — the first generation of
personal computers — believed they were
on the absolute cutting edge of technol-
ogy, and as far as things went those days,
they were. After all, the Apple II and the
IBM PC were delivering what most
people in the information industries had
only recently considered preposterous —
an entire computer on a desktop, inexpen-
sive enough for one person to afford, and
equipped with tools that could aid that
person in performing his or her work. Yet
those machines, despite their marvelous
powers, were in a sense fiiilures. Despite
their claim to being “personal” computers,
they presented an alien physiognomy to
the poor fish who had to use them. Be-
tween the user and his or her information
was a profound harrier.
This harrier came in the form of
the interface presented to the person
working the computer. These had come a
long way from the early, batch -processed
days of computing, when you communi-
cated to the machine through punch cards
and waited hours or even days for a re-
sponse. But though the interaction was in
real time, the forbidding spirit of batch
processing persisted. The operating sys-
tems of these computers relied on esoteric
code words and incantations. Their very
names implied their impenetrability —
ci*)'ptic, vaguely metallic monikers like
DOS and CP/M.
In order to get anything done on
these machines, you had to master the
codes and invoke them, quite precisely,
at the proper times. Once you learned
them, of course, you could motor along
quite nicely and get some useful things
done. But your every action was a rein-
forcement of the idea that you were in one
place and your information was some-
where else. You were never in control.
You never really got your hands on filings.
As a result, there was a gulf between the
human beings tentatively tapping on key-
boards and the piles of ones and zeros that
by some black process could be trans-
ferred into meaningful sentences, charts,
and pictures.
For years, some very bright people
had been thinking of ways to bridge this
gap. Maybe you can recognize some of the
names: Vannevar Bush, Ivan Sutherland,
Douglas Engelbart, and Alan Kay. The
last, when he joined a team of world-class
computer-science ninjas at Xerox Cor-
poration’s Palo Alto Research Center
(PARC), actually implemented a system
that allowed people deeper access to infor-
mation. But Xerox couldn’t figure out
how to get it into the world. Then,
in November 1979, eight
engineers and executives
fi*om Apple Computer mo-
seyed over to PARC to sec
what that stuff was all
about. It turned out to be a
heist (albeit a legal one)
bigger than the Brink’s
job. The Apple-oids left
PARC with the future in
their heads.
Apple itself had an
abortive first effort at
implementing these ideas:
the overpriced and over-
stuffed Lisa. But the com-
pany perfonned some seri-
ous innovation with Lisa,
and when those ideas mi-
grated to a small, impas-
sioned group of engineers
working on something called Macintosh,
everything changed. The Mac team, as-
sembled at first by polymath Jef Raskin
and ultimately led by an almost comically
messianic Steve Jobs, was driven not only
to craft a computer for “the people” (at
least the kind of people they hung out
with — spirited, hip, and aesthetically
aware) but also to make it inexpensive
enough so it would hit the market-
place with the impact of the post-Juras-
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THE ICONOCLAST
Talk about reaching for the stars!
This was a relatively tiny band of engi-
neers (never more than ten in the group),
a kind of portable Manhattan Project in
blue jeans. Yet, by refining and reworking
the ideas of Lisa, which in turn were
transmogi'ified visions from P^VRC and its
predecessors, we got Macintosh, which
embodied an approach to manipulating
infomiation drastically different from the
loathsome protocols to which people had
become accustomed.
Vive La Difference
WTat was the difference? Instead of rely-
ing on the middleman of commands to
get your information — dispatching some
digital homunculus to the back room to
fetch your spreadsheet from the regis-
ters — you did it. Digitally speaking, you
got your hands dirty. You looked on the
screen, and there was the folder you’d put
the file into. You dipped your hand into
the informationscape and opened the
folder, then did it again and got the file.
It wasn’t a rough sketch of the file, ei-
ther — it was pretty much what the file
would be when you printed it out. In fact,
in many cases, you didn’t need to print it
out. Working solely in the medium of
electrons, you could finally do your work
with die same confidence you had when
you worked with paper.
In a sense, Macintosh was a virtual
reality machine. An artificial world existed
inside every box. It was a consistent one,
and every detail was thought out very
carefully, down to the pinstripes on the
title bars and the number of times the re-
verse type flashed when you selected
somediing on a drop-down menu. (Some-
times these solutions were arrived at after
furious debates.) But what you saw was
something with elements of an office —
folders, trash can, printer, tools, and doc-
uments. These were metaphors, but after
working with Macintosh for a while,
something very odd happened. The meta-
phor became reality. Hiose icons repre-
senting documents called up real docu-
ments. VVTien you tossed something in the
Trash Can, it was really thrown out.
This metaphorical realm — some
people call it cyberspace — was actually a
place you could work in (and play in).
We all spend lots of time there now, but
for many of us Macintosh was our first
full frontal exposure to what William
Gibson calls “a consensual hallucination.”
Once consent was granted, we could get
some work done.
Because this world was so versatile,
Macintosh also broke the barrier between
text and graphics. Since Mac used bitmap-
ping, an innovation employed at Xerox,
everj^thing on a Mac screen was literally
a graphic element. WTile this exacted a
price in memor)^ and cost, it also allowed
for \WSIWYG (what you see is what
you get). And prodded by MacPaint, Bill
Atkinson’s charming screen-art program,
every new Macintosh owner quickly
learned that this machine made it easy to
be graphically artistic. (“Until now the
world of art has been a sacred club, like
fine china,” Atkinson told me. “Now it’s
for daily use.”)
These days, of course, other comput-
ers besides Macintosh use these tech-
niques. But the ideas exploded into the
mainstream with Macintosh. It’s olnious
to any executive who sees business reports,
any scientist who sits through lectures il-
lustrated with overheads, and any college
professor who receives term papers, that
there has been a revolution in the way
people visually produce information.
Macintosh made it happen.
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THE ICONOCLAST
tion stored digitally need not be viewed as
foreign matter. Macintosh was built from
the start with the idea that regardless of
medium — text, picture, sound, and even
full-motion video — people would be able
to access, create, and manipulate informa-
tion as freely as they interacted with the
natural world. This is, quite simply, a bet-
ter way for computers to operate, and it’s
no accident that Windows looks a lot like
Macintosh. And you will find that every
computational device in the fiiture, while
it may not parrot Macintosh conventions
as closely as Windows does, uses some of
its ideas, and certainly relies heavily on
metaphor to allow the user a degree of
intimacy and familiarity with his or her
information.
It was Macintosh that first presented
that concept to a mass audience in a co-
herent fashion, Macintosh that seduced us
into the conceptual foundation of the In-
formation Age. Although no computer
will ever be exactly like Macintosh again,
and although Macintosh itself will even-
tually fade into the geriatric ward of
outdated machinery, its legacy will be ap-
parent in cver\^ information tool we use,
well into the twenty-first centur}^ Our
cable boxes, our telephones (and other
personal communicators), and, I bet, our
refrigerators, automobiles, and credit
cards, will build upon the advances of
Macintosh.
And that’s how Macintosh has
changed and is changing the world. Re-
member, when Apple first presented the
machine, it encountered rre7?rendous resis-
tance. Critics rightfully lambasted its
memory and storage limitation, but there
was something more visceral in many of
the attacks: the accusation that Mac, with
its pretty pictures and point-and-click ap-
proach, was simply a toy. These nay-
sayers — who included nearly the entire
management information services com-
munity that controlled corporate com-
puter purchases — were quite simply re-
sisting the entire paradigm of using
familiar metaphors to make use of the
information revolution. If they’d had
their way, it might have been many
more years — or decades — before this ob-
viously superior manner of interaction
found its way into common use. But be-
cause there was Macintosh, the people
came to sec what the future could really
be — and they liked it.
And now the Macintosh paradigm
rules supreme. The barrier between
ourselves and our information is a free-
swinging gate. The fall of that barrier is
as significant a collapse as that of the
Berlin Wall.
There arc plenty of other things we
will remember about Macintosh: its status
as a fetish, the lionization of its creators
and marketers, Apple’s futile struggle to
keep its ideas closely held. . . . (And there
are things we will gladly forget, like the
Macintosh Portable.)
But as we celebrate its anniversary,
let’s remember this: it wasn’t solely the
Macintosh technology that made the sys-
tem so compelling. It was us, too: the
people who used it. We dared to flout
convention by buying the machine even
when the stuffy pundits of high tech were
dismissing it as a toy. We let Macintosh
work its magic on our own perceptions.
The Macintosh computer indeed changed
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CONSPICUOUS CONSUMER
BY DEBORAH BRANSCUM
Saints and Sinners
Revisited
The third annual roundup of nice — and naughty — companies
f ES, IT’S TIME AGAIN TO RE-
view the Macintosh scene and
evaluate industry saints and
sinners. This year, as usual,
consumers coped with uneven
treatment in the areas of qual-
ity, ser\dce, and support.
MRiich companies are basking
in the glow of good deeds
done and have earned a halo?
MRiich have shown the more
devilish bent illustrated by
horns? Keep reading to find out. (Listings
are in alphabetical order.)
^ Adobe Systems, Kensington
^JTtC Microware, and iVlicrosoft Corpo-
ration all earned halos with their
exemplary records of being responsive to
the reader complaints that Macworld for-
wards. (By the way, when I praise compa-
nies for being responsive to complaints,
that doesn’t necessarily mean that the cus-
tomers are always satisfied with the out-
come. It does mean, though, that each
company has been thoughtful, communi-
cative, and polite in addressing customers’
concerns.)
Infonnation service America On-
line rates horns for a billing prob-
leni that began last August and
still existed in November. Some Macin-
tosh users find themselves being charged
for time spent in free areas. Moreover,
9600-bps access still isn’t available to the
masses. (One nice move — ^AOL promises
there will be no extra charge for 9600-bps
service, once it arrives.)
<€=» It’s been a year of great
lHll change for Apple and its
customers, as Michael
Spindler took charge, the company down-
sized, John Sculley left, and Macintosh
model after Macintosh model was rolled
out the door. As usual, Apple’s been both
a saint and a sinner. Its heavenly practices
include continuing to drop prices on its
computers, making them truly competi-
tive widi Intel-based machines. Apple also
introduced the first desktop computer (the
Color Classic) that meets the Environ-
ing its customers outside California that
their cards were now worthless. Finally,
the company’s track record for resolved
customer complaints is improving but not
yet sterling. In some cases Apple requires
people to sign away their legal rights in
order to get a settlement — and not neces-
sarily a good one.
Mail-order companies APS, Mac-
^ntC Depot (now part of MadVIall),
MacWarehouse, and MacZone
are saints in my book for responding
prompdy to each reader complaint I bring
to their attention.
DayStar Digital earns a halo
for a low-cost upgrade pro-
motion and horns for
somewhat spotty execution
of the offer. In 1992, the
company offered a $99 up-
grade to a 3 3 MHz 040
board to Mac owners who
bought by October 31 a
50MHz 030 PowerCache
accelerator that included a
math coprocessor. More
than a year later, the prom-
ised 040 upgrade had not
materialized according to
three customers who ap-
parently fell through the
cracks and were getting
restive about the wait. In its
defense, DayStar points out
that hundreds of customers
have upgraded successfully
to the 040 board.
Game company Graphic Simula-
tions Corporation took a lot of
time to produce its second flight
simulator, F/A-18 Hornet. But in contrast
to some others in the industry, GSC re-
portedly kept its customers up-to-date on
progress with the game. The company
also actively recruited suggestions for im-
proving the game and then incorporated
many of those suggestions. Finally, the
company maintains active and responsive
online technical support. So Graphic
continues
mental Protection Agency’s Green Star
guidelines for reduced power consump-
tion (the sleep mode cuts electricity use by
half when the machine is not in use). And
the Earth’s ozone layer is sure to be grate-
ful that Apple dropped its worldwide chlo-
rofluorocarbon emissions from manufac-
turing to zero in 1993 from a peak of
270,000 pounds in 1990.
But Apple again showed its devilish
side with inaccurate or inadequate prod-
uct specs. Contrary to the Apple Catalog
description and other product literature,
the Quadra 610 8/160 does not include a
math coprocessor. And contrary to the
box packaging and reassurances by some
salespeople, the Performa 475 does not
use a standard 040 chip but the 68]kC040
instead. So it doesn’t include a math co-
processor either (but at least it doesn’t ac-
tually claim to), much to the disappoint-
ment of a few Macworld readers. Hello
gray scale — it turns out the Quadra
840AV can’t capture color QuickTime
video when used with monitors larger
than 16 inches — but dealers don’t know
that. Apple also discontinued its credit
card program for purchasing Apple prod-
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CONSPICUOUS CONSUMER
Simulations earned its halo for maintain-
ing communications with customers and
providing consistent technical support.
Bugs are an unfortunate fact of
life for any computer developer
but some bugs are more painful
than others. Microtek Lab landed on the
sinners list this year because of problems
with the ScanMaker II and the scanner’s
accompanying Photoshop plug-in. The
ScanMaker II comes set with SCSI ID 6;
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Mirotek tried to fix the problem with ver-
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though it w^ere a scanner, erasing the disk.
Ouch. Version 2.05 fixes the problem, ac-
cording to Microtek.
Mirror wins both horns and
halo. A halo because it
bundles a full version of
Adobe Photoshop with its scanners, not a
limited version like some other compa-
nies. Horns because it ran two inaccurate
advertisements early last year that offered
a lifetime w^arranty on its products. (At the
time Mirror believed it could w^ork out a
new^ w^arranty agreement with its suppli-
ers, which turned out to he incorrect.)
w-r Pastel Development Corporation
may have a winner in its Day-
Maker 3 .0, but some disgruntled
customers report that during the many
months Pastel was working on version
3.0, the company was not responding to
phone calls. One example is reader Randy
Anderson. He prepaid for the upgrade
to 3.0 in October 1992 and didn’t get
a response to his letters or phone calls
about his purchase between April and late
October, w'hen 3.0 finally landed in his
mailbox.
Quark’s policy diat registered cus-
tomers must pay the full fee for
replacement software and manuals
should the software be lost in, for ex-
ample, a hurricane, doesn’t really rate ad-
ditional comment — just a pair of horns.
Shiva Corporation gets dinged for
its failure to be responsive online
in its own forums on CompuSei’ve
and America Online for .several months in
1993. The good news is that the company
hired an online support person who made
his debut in November, which should sal-
vage the situation.
<=> Last April a Georgia-based
iHj company called SofTeam
promised to offer great cus-
tomer support for its dynamic-model
spreadsheet called Flippant, in the form of
bug notification, free bug- fixes, and a
monthly newsletter. At the same time, the
company was raising capital by selling
Flippant while the product was still under
development. SofTeam gets both a halo
and horns; the halo is for being more hon-
est than many companies in admitting its
software isn’t really there yet. Raising
capital by selling software still under de-
velopment is novel but not particularly
customer-friendly, which is w^hy the com-
pany — wdiich I haven’t been able to lo-
cate — also deserves a set of horns.
State of the Art alienated some
customers this year after it took
over the Accountant Inc. line of
products and declined to continue sup-
porting customers who did not upgrade to
Accountant version 3.5.2. That’s a busi-
ness decision the company felt justified in
making. But a letter mailed out in July re-
ally ticked off some folks. State of the Art
explained that it made the decision not to
support older versions of the program “at
the potential cost of customer goodwill,
corporate reputation, and future revenue,”
and later states “there will not be any fur-
ther individual responses concerning the
issues addressed in this letter.” State of the
Art earns its horns not for wdiat it consid-
ered a necessar)^ business decision hut for
its not-ver)^-businesslike communication
of that decision to its customers.
^ ^ Virtus Corporation responded ad-
^jj|Y mirably to the approximately 700
customers who ordered copies of
Virtual Sketch Pad for $60. Because Vir-
tual Sketch Pad became a different prod-
uct (Virtus VR), the company mailed its
customers Virtus WalkThrough, a $195
program, for the same price. A fabulous
gesture.
^ — ». J im W arren, a columnist for com-
puter tabloid Mia'oT'wtes, won
his halo by helping California
residents win electronic access to much of
the information generated by the Califor-
nia legislature. Last spring Assembly
member Debra Bowmen introduced AB
1624, w'hich was stymied by lack of sup-
port and legislators’ concerns about cost.
Warren rallied support for the hill and
showed how low-cost access could be pro-
vided via Internet — both crucial to the
bill’s success. Online access becomes avail-
able in early January 1994.
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world, 501 Second St., San Francisco, CA 94107, or
via AppleLink (Macworld 1) or America Online (Brans-
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if a company is ignoring you.
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THE BEST PRODUCTS FEATURED IN MACWORLD
Edited by Susan Grant-Marsh
Macworld Editors’ Choice is a complete listing of the hard-
ware and software products selected as the best of their
type in Macworld's comparative articles through the past
year. A ❖ next to a product indicates that we chose more
than one product in that category.
Hardware
MONITORS
BLACK-AND-WHITE MONITORS, May 93
Portrait monitor: 15-Inch Gray Scale Portrait Display;
Mirror Technologies, 612/633-4450; $399, with video-dis-
play board S549.
Two-page monitor: ❖ L-View MutiMode; Sigma
Designs, 510/770-0100; $1099, with video-display
board S1398. -fr MD 202 Two Page Display; Mobius
Technologies, 510/654-0556; $699, with video-display
board $798.
COLOR MONITORS. Oct 93
16- and 17-inch: « ErgoView 17; Sigma Designs, 510/
770-0100; $1349.
4- Multisync 5FC; NEC Technologies. 708/860-9500; $1355
(NEC's estimated dealer price).
GRAY-SCALE MONITORS, May 93
Portrait monitor: Pivot Display; Radius, 408/434-1 010;
$849, with video-display board $1148.
Two-page monitor: MuitiMode 120, SilverView Pro;
Sigma Designs, 510/770-0100; $1099, with video-display
board $1299.
SMALL COLOR MONITORS, Jan 94
14- inch display: ❖ Sony CPD 1430; Sony Corp. of
America 800/222-7669; $779.95. <■ Nanao FlexScan
F340i*W; Nanao USA. 800/800-5202; $899.
1 5- inch display; NEC MultiSync 4FGe; NEC Technolo-
gies, 708/860-9500; estimated street price $755.
NETWORK HARDWARE
HARDWARE ROUTERS. Jul 93
Under $1500: EtherRoute; Compatible Systems. 303/
444-9532; base model $1495 (no TCP/IP support).
Between $1500 and $3500: lnterRoute/5; Farallon
Computing. 510/814-5000; $3299 to $3499.
HIGH-SPEED FAX MODEMS. Oct 93
Teleport Gold and Silver with Global Fax; Global Village
Communication. 415/390-8200; Gold $499, Silver $429.
POWERBOOK TOOLS
DUO DOCKING CONNECTORS. Feb 93
PowerLink DeskNet; E-Machines. 503/646-6699; $699.
EXTERNAL HARD DRIVES, Feb 93
•fr Companion 120; APS Technologies, 800/874-1428;
$599. « PocketDrive 120MB; La Cie, 503/520-9000;
$699.
INTERNAL FAX MODEMS, Feb 93
« PowerModem series; PSI, 408/559-8544; $195 to
$495. PowerPort series; Global Village Communication,
415/390-8200; $229 to $499.
PRINTERS
COLOR PRINTERS. May 93
Dye-sublimation: ColorStream/DS; Mitsubishi Inter-
national, 408/980-1100; $9950, <r Phaser USD Color Printer;
Tektronix, 503/682-7377; $9995.
Thermal-wax: 4> ColorScript 210; QMS, 205/633-4300;
$4995. 4- Personal ColorPoint PSE; Seiko Instruments, 408/
922-5800; $2999.
Low-end liquid-ink: HP DeskWriter 550C; Hewlett-
Packard, 800/752-0900; $1099.
Midrange liquid-ink: HP PaintJet XL300; Hewlett-
Packard, 800/752-0900; $3495.
Solid-ink: Phaser III PXi Color Printer; Tektronix, 503/
685-3585; $9995.
PERSONAL PRINTERS, Sep 93
Ink-jet: StyleWriter II; Apple Computer, 408/996-1010;
$359.
PostScript laser: Tl microLaser Series; Texas Instruments,
512/250-6679; $1199 to $1599.
QuickDraw laser: LaserWriter Select 300; Apple Com-
puter. 408/996-1010; $839.
WORKGROUP PRINTERS, Feb 94
High-speed: Hewlett-Packard 4Si MX; Hewlett-Packard,
800/752-0900; $5499.
Best buy: ^ Apple LaserWriter Pro 630; Apple Computer,
408/996-1010; $2529. 4- Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 4M;
Hewlett-Packard. 800/752-0900; $2329.
SCANNERS
LOW-COST COLOR SCANNERS. Nov 93
$1300 to $1600: 4- La Cie Silverscanner II; La Cie. 503/
520-9000: $1599. 4- Hewlett-Packard ScanJet lie; Hewlett-
Packard. 800/752-0900; $1599.
Under $1300: Mirror 8(X) Plus Color Scanner; Mirror Tech-
nologies. 612/633-4550; $1299.
OCR, Nov 93
OmniPage Professional; Caere Corp., 408/395-7000; $995.
SYSTEMS/STORAGE
DOUBLE-SPEED CD-ROM DRIVES, Jul 93
Sheer speed: Pioneer DRM-604X; Pioneer. 408/988-
1702; $1795.
Overall value: AppleCD 300; Apple Computer, 408/996-
1010; $599.
Budget choice: NEC MultiSpin 38; NEC Technologies,
708/860-9500; $465.
HIGH-SPEED HARD DRIVES. Aug 93
2.7CB drives: 4* Nova XL 2700; Microtech International,
203/468-6223: $2999. 4- Vista 3.5GB; Relax Technology,
510/471-6112; $3499.
SCSI-2 adapter: QuickSCSI; PLI, 800/288-8754; $499.
MACINTOSH UPGRADES. Jun 93
Classic accelerator (40MHz): TransWarp Classic;
Applied Engineering, 214/241-6060; $798 (with FPU).
SE accelerator (50MHz): Gemini Integra; Total Sys-
tems, 503/345-7395: $1089 (with FPU).
SE accelerator (25MHz): Quik30; Novy Systems, 904/
427-2358; $449 (without FPU).
SE/30 accelerator (50MHz or 33MHz): Universal
PowerCache; DayStar Digital, 404/967-2077; 50MHz $999
(with FPU), 33MHz $449 (without FPU).
LC and LC II upgrades: Macintosh LC III Logic Board
Upgrade: Apple Computer, 408/996-1010; $599.
Mac II accelerators: -fr Radius Rocket 251, Radius Rocket
33; Radius, 408/434-1010; 25i $1199, 33 $2499. 4* Uni-
versal PowerCache series; DayStar Digital, 404/967-2077;
$449 to $999.
Ilfx SCSI accelerator: QuickSCSI; PLI. 800/288-8754;
$499.
Quadra static-RAM cache card: FastCache Quadra;
DayStar Digital, 404/967-2077; $299 for Quadra 700 and
9(X), $449 for Quadra 800 and 950.
MIDRANGE HARD DRIVES. Mar 93
Low-capacity drive: La Cie Cirrus 240; La Cie. 503/
520-9000: $769.
Notable technology: DiamondDrive 510; Mass Micro-
systems. 408/522-1200; $2089.
Bargain: APS Fujitsu 520; APS Technologies. 800/874-
1428; $1149.
All-around quality: hammer 525FMF; FWB, 415/474-
8055; $2799.
OPTICAL DRIVES, Dec 93
3 Vi-inch: 4- Epson OMD 5010; ClubMac, 800/258-2622;
continues
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BUYERS' TOOLS
- iiors’ Choice
$959. « 128 MO; APS Technologies, 800/874-1428; $899.
5V4-inch: Sharp JY-750; ClubMac, 800/258-2622;
$1829. Infinity MaxOptical 11m; PLI, 800/288-8754;
$4113.
VIDEO/DISPLAY
24-BIT COLOR GRAPHICS BOARD, Feb 93
Spectrum/24 PDQ Plus; SuperMac Technology, 408/541 -
6100; $1999. 4* Thunder/24; SuperMac Technology, 408/
541-6100; $2999.
COLOR LCD PROJECTION, Jan 93
Display panel: MediaPro; nView Corp., 804/873-1354;
$7995.
Low-end panel: TFT Rainbow HD Model 700; Chisolm,
408/559-1111; $5295.
Complete LCD projector: System 6000; In Focus Sys-
tems, 503/692-4968; $8495.
VIDEO-CAPTURE BOARD, Jan 93
VideoSpigot; SuperMac Technology, 408/541-6100; $449
to $1399, depending on bundling options.
Software
ACCOUNTING/FINANCE
GROWING A SMALL BUSINESS, Nov 93
Small-business system: M.Y.O.B.; Teleware, 201/586-
2200; $199.
Home office/personal finance: MacMoney; Survi-
vor Software, 310/410-9527; $119.95.
PERSONAL FINANCE, Jun 93
4* CheckWriter 4.0; Aatrix Software, 701/746-6801;
$79.
4* Andrew Tobias’ Managing Your Money 5.0; MECA Soft-
ware, 203/256-5000; $79.95.
BUSINESS TOOLS
STATISTICS, Oct 93
Exploratory data analysis: DataDesk 4.1; Data De-
scription, 607/257-1000; $595.
Comprehensive package: SYSTAT 5.2.1 ; SYSTAT, 708/
864-5670; $895.
COMMUNICATIONS/NETWORKS
HIGH-SPEED FAX MODEM SOFTWARE, Oct 93
Faxstf; Telefocus, 816/886-9800; $79.
NETWARE CONNECTIVITY, Sep 93
NetWare for Macintosh; Novell, 801/429-7000; $495
for 5-user license to $2295 for 200-user license.
NETWORK DIAGNOSTICS, Feb 93
Ethernet: EtherPeek; AG Group, 510/937-7900;
$795.
LocalTalk: LocalPeek; AG Group. 510/937-7900;
$495.
NETWORK MANAGEMENT. Feb 93
Network Supervisor; CSC Technologies, 412/471-7170;
$495.
SOFTWARE ROUTER, Jui 93
Apple Internet Router 3.0; Apple Computer, 408/996-1010;
Basic Connectivity Package $499.
TERMINAL EMULATOR. Oct 93
VersaTerm; Synergy Software, 215/779-0522; $149.
GRAPHICS
2- D CAD, Jan 93
Low-end: BluePrint; Graphsoft, 410/461-9488; $295.
Midrange: PowerDraw; Engineered Software, 919/299-
4843; $795.
3- D DESIGN, Aug 93
Price for performance: 4» Ray Dream Designer 2.0.4;
Ray Dream, 415/960-0765; $299. 4- Alias Sketch 1.5; Alias
Research, 416/362-9181; $995.
All-in-one solution: ifr Infini-D 2.5; Specular Inter-
national, 413/549-7600; $995. ^ StrataVision 3D 2.6.1;
Strata, 801/628-5218; $995.
CLIP ART'S GREATEST HITS, Jan 94
Overall collection: 4* ClickArt Studio Series; T/Maker
Company, 415/962-0195; $99.95 per volume. ^ Elec-
tronic Clipper subscription service; Dynamic Graphics,
800/255-8800; $67.50 per month. 4- Metro ImageBase
Electronic Clip Art; Metro ImageBase, 800/525-1552;
$74.95 per volume, CD-ROM $149.95. 4- Images with
Impact series; 3G Graphics, 800/456-0234; $99.95 to
$129.95 per volume, CD-ROM $499. 4* Typographers'
Ornaments; Underground Grammarian, 609/589-6477;
$25 per volume; ten TIFF albums $200; EPS volumes
$50 each.
DRAWING PROGRAMS (LOW-COST), Sep 93
Budget draw: Expert Draw; Expert Software, 305/567-
9990; $49.95.
Budget draw/paint: UltraPaint; Deneba Software,
305/596-5644; $79.
Beginners' program: Aldus SuperPaint; Aldus Corp.,
619/558-6000; $149.95.
Overall: Canvas; Deneba Software, 305/596-5644;
$399.
IMAGE DATABASES, Oct 93
4* Aldus Fetch 1.0; Aldus Corp., 206/628-5739; $295.
4* Multi-Ad Search 2.0; Multi-Ad Services, 309/692-
1530; $249.
PAINT AND IMAGE-EDITING, Sep 93
Budget buy: Expert Cdor Paint; Expert Software, 305/
Vendors: Please write to Macworld Editors’ Choice,
501 Second St., San Francisco, CA 94107, or send
a fax to 415/442-0766 to inform us of changes in
your phone number or your product’s list price.
567-9990; $49.95.
Overall program: Fractal Design Painter; Fractal Design
Corp., 408/688-8800; $399.
Image-editing program: Adobe Photoshop 2.5.1;
Adobe Systems, 415/961-4400; $895.
INTEGRATED SOFTWARE
INTEGRATED SOFTWARE, Feb 94
ClarisWorks; Claris Corporation, 408/727-8227; $299.
ORGANIZATION/PRODUCTIVITY
CALENDARS, Jul 93
Alarm system: 4* First Things First; Visionary Software,
503/246-6200; $79.95. 4- Smart Alarms Plus; JAM Soft-
ware. 203/630-0055; $75.
All-around scheduler: Now Up-to-Date; Now Software,
503/274-2800; $99.
Meeting scheduler: Meeting Maker; On Technology,
617/374-1400; five-pack $495.
PERSONAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT, Feb 93
TouchBase/DateBook; After Hours Software, 818/780-2220;
$169.95.
SALES-AUTOMATION SOFTWARE, Oct 93
❖ Contact Ease; WestWare, 619/660-0356; one user $395,
five users $1495. 4- CBS; Colleague Business Software, 512/
345-9964; $495.
TEXT-RETRIEVAL SOFTWARE, Dec 93
Small system: On Location; On Technology, 617/374-
1400; $129.
Multiuser system: Personal Librarian; Personal Library
Software, 301/990-1155; $995.
PRESENTATION TOOLS
MULTIMEDIA AUTHORING, Mar 93
Entry-level: « Action; Macromedia, 415/252-2000;
$495.
4* Passport Producer; Passport Designs, 415/726-0280; $495.
UTILITIES
BRAVE NEW DOCUMENTS, Jan 94
Application-independent document distribution:
Common Ground; No Hands Software, 800/598-3821;
$189.95.
Book-length documents: FrameReader; Frame Tech-
nology, 800/843-7263; $84.95
PRINTING, Sep 93
PC-printer cable packages: PowerPrint; GDT
Softworks. 604/291-9121; $149.
SECURITY, Feb 93
File encryption and erasure: Citadel with Shredder;
Datawatch Corp., 919/549-0711; $99.95.
Full-featured security: ultraSecure; usrEZ Software,
714/756-5140; $239.
Low-cost security: PassProof; Kensington Microware,
415/572-2700; $64.95. m
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each client has the full resources of the server. If you use 4D
on a network, you need this product. Jun 93
★ ★★★ :^4th Dimension 3.0.1, ACI US, 408/
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for both developers and end users. For a relational data-
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distributed on a network. Still, it's not yet as inexpensive or
as convenient as you might wish. Oct 93
★ ★★ ©Risk 1.1, Palisade Corp., 607/277-
8000, $395. Statistical simulator for Microsoft Excel
financial computations generates complex, statistically valid
templates within Excel and is the first choice for analysts
who work with probabilistic models every day. It assumes
that the user is an Excel power user. Aug 93
★ ★★★ ClarisWorks 2.0, Claris Corp., 408/
727-8227, $299. Integrated program provides more
features, is easier to use and faster, and has better inte-
grated modules than other available programs. Aug 93
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ware, 415/321-7340, $189.95. Simple, robust
document interchange system is the clear choice for mod-
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documents from many different applications. Oct 93
★ ★ EasyFlow 1.1, HavenTree Software, 61 3/
544-6035, S229. The rough edges and distinctly un-
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DOS heritage, but on the whole it's easy to use. Sep 93
ififir Helix Express 1.0, Helix Technologies,
708/205-1669, $439. This relational database has an
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grammers, but provides an easy route into basic
data-handling for nonprogrammers. Jul 93
★ ★★ Helix Tracker 1.0, Helix Technologies,
708/465-0242, $439. Well-designed workgroup-doc-
ument manager has strong audit and annotation features:
imposes just the right amount of administrative discipline.
For large documents, however, Ethernet will look mighty
attractive. Nov 93
★★★ ithink 2.2.1, High Performance Systems,
603/643-9636, $695. Although it requires a real train-
ing commitment for effective use this product is an attractive
dynamic business modeling system. It's a good bet for iden-
tifying cloudy spots in the crystal ball. May 93
ific Lotus Notes 3.0, Lotus Development
Corp., 617/577-8500, $495 per client. Well-or-
ganized, robust, and flexible business data system demands
a full-time administrator, preferably with considerable pro-
gramming experience, for effective use. Sep 93
/MacBarcoda 2.24, ComputaLabel, 508/
462-0993, $349 to $895. Simple-to-use desk acces-
sory creates bar codes in EPS or Adobe Illustrator 1 .1 format.
DA cannot automatically create serial codes. Jun 93
★ ★★ AAacProject Pro, Claris Corp., 408/727-
8227, $599. If you’re working on a midsize project and
like using PERT charts, this may be the project-manage-
ment software for you. However, the multistep scheduling
process and the limited integration between charts are frus-
trating if you prefer Gantt charts. May 93
★ ★★★ MarcoPolo 2.0, AAainstay, 805/484-
9400, S395. Inexpensive, easy-to-use product allows you
or your workgroup to archive and retrieve documents,
whether in electronic or paper form. Queries are easy to
construct and searches are handled quickly. Sep 93
★ ★★ Market Master Manager 3.5, Break-
through Productions, 916/265-0911, $595.
Sales-automation software is designed to keep track of con-
tacts, generate mailings, and make sure that leads don't fall
through the cracks. It includes a remote module, but it has
some odd user-interface features. Oct 93
★★ Memorizer 2.0, Brains Software Engineer-
ing, 432-231-28973 (Austria), $100. Software
records dictation and you transcribe the dictation in a word
processor. You may prefer to stick with a hand-held tape
recorder, considering the product's RAM and storage ap-
petite, and its propensity to crash. Aug 93
'k'k'k Micro Planner Manager 1.1, Micro Plan-
ning International, 303/757-2216, $695. When
you require cross-project resource sharing and leveling for
a reasonable price, this project-management software has
the edge. It has a generally intuitive interface, though there's
a steep learning curve for its advanced features. Nov 93
★★★ Microsoft Works 3.0, Microsoft, 206/
882-8088, $249. Capable upgrade delivers marginally
improved functionality and a welcome face-lift to this inte-
grated program, but there are a number of incompatibilities,
odd design choices, and performance flaws. Feb 93
★★★ Office Tracker 1.1, Milum Corp., 512/
327-2255, $195 to $995. The efficient user interface
of this software sign-out board, in both single-user and
networkable versions, makes it easy to learn and use; but it
has some minor flaws. Dec 93
★★★ OrgChart Express 1.0, Kaetron Soft-
ware, 713/890-3434, $279. Organization-chart
software links a database to standard box-drawing func-
tions. Although the learning curve is steep, the effort may
be worth it for people who regularly work with large or
complex organization charts. Apr 93
★ ★★★ Project Scheduler 5, Scitor Corp.,
415/570-7700, $695. For most midrange project-plan-
ning, this program’s many hits outweigh its few misses. It
goes beyond the requisite scheduling options, with infla-
tion factors and unlimited projects in memory, and it conforms
to accepted standards, so you get consistent, predictable
results. Aug 93
iiririr SpreadBase 1.0.1, Objective Software,
415/306-7410, $695. Business data-analysis tool is a
unique combination of database and spreadsheet functions.
It's worth a close look for power users, despite meager docu-
mentation and a cranky macro language. May 93
Useful Voice Processor for Macintosh
1.1 v7. Useful Software Corp., 508/774-8233,
$179.95. Dictation software lets you record and tran-
scribe on a Mac. It has some useful features, but you must
take uncommon care to avoid crashes. Dec 93
'kic'k Wingz 1.1 ae, Informix Software, 913/
599-7100, $399. Low-overhead spreadsheet offers
advanced-math functionality, a competent calculating en-
gine, and superior charts; but spreadsheet is missing
outlining, real 3-D spreadsheet linking, and the host of third-
party add-ons offered for Microsoft Excel. Jul 93
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AAACWORLD
Corp.. 801/225-5000, $249. This program offers
seven well-integrated and flexible modules. It has a few
shortcomings, including some memory-management prob-
lems. but buyers should generally be pleased. Jun 93
COMMUNICATIONS/NETWORKS
'k'kiic'k EtherPeek 2.0.3, LocalPeek 2.0.3,
TokenPeek 1.0 (2.0.3), AG Croup, 510/937-
7900, $495 to $995. Priced at a fraction of the cost of
dedicated hardware analyzers, these network analyzer tools
give you better analysis with a friendlier interface. They’re
a worthwhile investment. Jan 94
★ ★★★ Microphone Pro, Software Ventures
Corp., 510/644-3232, $295. Truly comprehensive
telecommunications package now includes send-and-receive
fax software. Although the new TCP/IP tools are compli-
cated, the documentation «s clear and precise. Apr 93
NetVirtuai 2.0, Eclectec, 408/462-2040,
$995 to $4985. One-of-a-kind network-simulation prod-
uct favors flexibility at the expense of usability. Only after
hours of work will your simulation report anything mean-
ingful about your network, and even then the results are
difficult to analyze. Apr 93
"kiciir Network Vital Signs 1.0 (1.1), Dayna
Communications, 801/531-0600, $449. Fault-
monitoring application continually watches selected network
devices, monitoring for specific errors. Unfortunately, when
monitoring more than ten devices. It noticeably degrades
the performance of the monitoring Mac. Mar 93
ifitir On the Air 1.0.1, Digital Eclipse Soft-
ware, 510/547-6101, $79.99 to $639.99. Intercom
system transmits System 7 SND resources, SoundEdit, and
AIFF sound files across a network. It’s well designed and
performs decently, but Its usefulness seems limited. Aug 93
★ ★★ On The Road 1.1, Connectix, 415/571-
7100, $99. Helpful PowerBook utility looks at what's
hooked up to your computer and adjusts accordingly — for
example, printing when a printer is available and otherwise
deferring printing. It only supports some hardware, how-
ever, so check before buying. Dec 93
icir SoftPC with Windows, Insignia Solutions,
415/694-7600, $499. The emulation of a complete
and accurate Windows environment on a Mac is an amaz-
ing accomplishment, but the product is so slow, even on a
Quadra, that it performs in what might best be character-
ized as a dreamlike languor. Jun 93
iciHicif Timbuktu 5.0.1, Farallon Computing,
510/814-5000, $199 to $5500. By letting one com-
puter (a Mac or a Windows-based PC) control, observe, or
exchange data with another computer, this terminal-emu-
lation product allows you to use resources almost anywhere
on a network. Mar 93
★ ★★★ VersaTerm 5.0, Synergy Software,
215/779-0522, $195 to $295. The price and fea-
ture set of this network terminal-emulation package make
it a terrific value. In spite of its complex documentation and
limitations If you're looking for a fast path to Internet con-
nectivity, this Is It. Jan 94
DESKTOP PUBLISHING
★ AboutFace 1.1.1 (1 .1 .2), Big Rock Software,
716/288-2860, $69.95. Type-specimen generator has
many serious deficiencies that need to be addressed. Jan 94
'k'k'k'k Aldus Fetch 1.0, Aldus Corp., 206/
622-5500, $295. The rich feature set and network sup-
port of this image-cataloging software make it a clear winner.
Although cataloging is slow, users have fine control of the
depth and compression of thumbnails. Aug 93
itifif'k Aldus PageMaker 5.0, Aldus Corp.,
206/622-5500, $895. Desktop publishing software has
added the features, both great and small, that it's been lack-
ing, while still retaining the case-of-use advantages that it's
always had. This is a superb upgrade. Nov 93
ifif Aldus Personal Press 2.0, Aldus Corp.,
206/628-2320, $199. Basic, inexpensive page-layout
program gains strength, but Is missing elements that novice
users need, such as automatic kerning. Its software-knows-
best approach to copyfitting makes manual fine-tuning
difficult and is likely to confuse beginners. Mar 93
★★★ Apple Font Pack, Apple Computer, 408/
996-1 01 0, $99. Apple’s first collection of TrueType fonts
includes only 12 fonts that haven't been available since the
late eighties in the PostScript format. Still, it's not a bad
deal, considering that Adobe PostScript fonts cost four times
as much. Mar 93
★ ★★ Cumulus 1.1, Canto Software, 415/431-
6871, $295. Good network support, plus a feature that
creates a protocol file for recording user actions, make this
image-cataloging program a good choice for workgroups.
It doesn't have an image preview feature, or offer 32-blt
thumbnails. Aug 93
'k'k'k Expanded Book Toolkit 1.0.1, The Voy-
ager Company, 310/451-1383, $295. Using this
hypermedia publishing program, average mortals can cre-
ate highly functional multimedia books in a fraction of the
time it would take to do the job unassisted. Be aware, though,
that it’s no QuarkXPress. Jun 93
★★★★ FontMonger 1.5.7 (1.5.9), Ares Soft-
ware Corp., 415/578-9090, $149.95. Font-con-
version utility provides cross-platform, cross-font conver-
sion and makes it easy to create composite, subscript,
superscript, and rotated characters. Sep 93
★ ★ ImageAccess 1.0, Nikon, 516/547-4355,
$495. This expensive Image-cataloging program has an
unusual interface and cannot be used over a network. A
plug-in module provides direct support for Nikon's LS-351 OAF
film scanner. Aug 93
'k'kif Kodak ColorSense 1 .0, Eastman Kodak,
716/253-0740, $499. Color-management system gives
average users access to a reasonable level of color consis-
tency at a reasonable price. It does not make color separations.
Oct 93
★ ★ Kudo Image Browser 1.0, Imspace Sys-
tems Corp., 619/272-2600, $295. This im-
age-cataloging software cannot control thumbnail depth or
compression, and doesn’t have a keyword feature or allow
multiple users to access the catalog simultaneously. The
unique Riffle feature lets you quickly scan images. Aug 93
★ ★★ Lazy Dog Foundry Personal Font, Lazy
Dog Foundry, 612/291-0306, $199.99 to
$499.99. Type 1 font made from your handwriting has
clean, even lines— whether or not your writing does. Apr 93
★ ★★ Publish It Easy 3.0, Timeworks, 708/
559-1300, $199.95. Desktop-publishing program of-
fers writing, editing, formatting, page-layout, drawing, and
painting tools with well-thought-out interface innovations,
plus an excellent database manager. Unfortunately, the pro-
gram is unstable and crash-prone. Mar 93
itifirir QuarkXPress 3.2, Quark, 303/894-
8888, $895. This upgrade adds the EfiColor XTension to
ensure the greatest possible fidelity of color images and is a
must-have for professional color publishers who use Quark.
For others, the enhancements are welcome but minor enough
that they provide little incentive to upgrade. Nov 93
★ ★★★ SuperATM, Adobe Systems, 415/961-
4400, $149. This upgrade to Adobe Type Manager lets
you view Adobe-brand PostScript fonts on screen and out-
put them at high resolutions, even when the corresponding
printer fonts are unavailable. Although it has limitations,
this is an outstanding advance in font technology and a
tremendous value. May 93
ifififit Tableworks Plus 1.05, Npath, 206/
392-7745, $299. Publishing utility adds a full table-
editor to QuarkXPress and Is a must-have for anyone doing
even mildly complex tables. Jan 94
EDUCATION
ififiric Algebra, Broderbund Software, 415/
382-4400, $89.95 to $99.95. Interactive, imagina-
tive math tutorial is keyed to the standard textbook order
of topics, but offers much more. It is particularly strong on
word problems and graphing. May 93
A: 'A' Comprehensive Review In Biology, Queue,
203/335-0908, $295. There isn't a textbook publisher
in North America with the nerve to publish a black-and-
white biology book with nothing more than text and basic
line drawings, much less charge several hundred dollars for
it, but that, in effect, is what this CD-ROM is. May 93
"kicic Compton's Multimedia Encyclopedia
1.00M, Compton's New Media, 619/929-2626,
$795. The down-to-earth writing style and numerous bells
and whistles of this multimedia encyclopedia on CD-ROM
appeal to younger readers, but the high cost and sluggish
performance may be prohibitive. Apr 93
kkifk Decimal & Fraction Maze 1.2, Great
Wave Software, 408/438-1990, $69.95 to
$89.95. Education software weaves the threads of eight
math curricula— from third grade to eighth, along with two
levels of adult education— into an interesting and visually
stimulating game. Jul 93
★ ★ Dvorak on Typing 1 .0, MaePlay, 714/553-
3530, $49.95. Typing tutor offers solid lessons, but the
small annoyances, such as never being able to take inter-
mediate or advanced lessons without first passing a test,
add up. Jun 93
★ ★★★ How Computers Work, Time Warner
Interactive Croup, 818/955-9999, $79.99. Grace-
ful, well-integrated CD-RQM tutorial guides the curious
through brief but helpful explanations of basic computer
technologies. Jan 94
kick HyperStudio, Roger Wagner Publish-
ing, 619/442-0522, $179.95. Hypermedia authoring
tool supports color and many multimedia functions through
easy-to-use dialog boxes, but the interface doesn't always
follow Apple guidelines. Dec 93
kkk MacClobe 1 .3.0, Broderbund Software,
415/382-4400, $44.95. Besides maps and bits of fun,
such as national anthems, this geography software offers
an impressive quantity of demographic and economic in-
formation. Its data export could use some work. Feb 93
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BUYERS' TOOLS
MACWORLD
The Software Toolworks, 415/883-3000, $49.95.
If being entertained while learning to type interests you,
this typing tutor provides varied environments, interesting
lessons, and good games. Jun 93
Millie's Math House, Edmark Corp.,
206/556-8400, $49.95. Math-education software
provides ways for preschoolers to experiment with num-
bers and counting. It's engaging, but more advanced levels
would keep children challenged longer. Jul 93
'kicic'k The New Grolier Multimedia Ency-
clopedia, Grolier Electronic Publishing, 203/
797-3530, $395. The scholarly text of this encyclope-
dia on CD-ROM is suitable for sophisticated readers, while
its speed, ease of use, and value are Impressive. Apr 93
ififiric The Rosetta Stone, Fairfield Language
Technologies, 703/432-6166, $395. Foreign-lan-
guage instruction on CD-ROM is a valuable educational tool
and fun to use. The lessons are well paced, and the content
is generally excellent and diverse. Jan 94
★ ★ The Secret Codes of C.Y.P.H.E.R. 1 .0 (1.1),
Tanager Software Productions, 510/430-0900,
$59.95. Intriguing facts about mammals and a variety of
alphabets provide the interest in this educational game, but
the inescapable, repetitive animations are a major detrac-
tion. Apr 93
ifidc The Secret Island of Dr. Quandary 1.0
(1.01), MECC, 612/569-1500, $49.95 to $69.95.
Clever package of gorgeous landscapes, catchy sounds, and
tempting arcade-game puzzles uses math, logic, and read-
ing skills. Although slow, it's fun. Jun 93
★★★ Stickybear's Reading Room 2.2a, Op-
timum Resource, 803/785-7441, $59.95.
Educational game with four activities takes a sedate but di-
rect path to building primary-level reading skills. Jun 93
★ ★★★ Where in America's Past Is Carmen
Sandiego? 1.0 (1.3), Broderbund Software, 415/
382-4400, $44.95. Travel in time and the U.S. chasing
those V.I.L.E. crooks in this clever educational history/ge-
ography game that's challenging for all ages. Mar 93
ENTERTAINMENT
★ ★★★ A-Train, Maxis, 510/254-9700,
$69.95. Charming railroad simulation offers astonishing,
and often witty detail, but the learning curve is high and
the interface isn't completely Mac-like. Apr 93
★ ★ America Alive, MediaAlive/CD Tech-
nology, 408/752-8500, $99. QuickTime movies,
photographs, maps, text, and audio mingle in this multime-
dia CD-ROM guide to the U.S. It's a promising concept,
but it doesn't yield much useful information. Mar 93
★★★★★ Arthur's Teacher Trouble, Broder-
bund Software, 41 5/382-4400, $59.95. Every page
of this delightful animated book is dense with surprises that
arouse and satisfy a child's curiosity. In the words of six-
year-old Alex. "It's like chocolate ice cream. You can have
it more than once and it's still good." Apr 93
★ ★★ Battle Enhanced Chess CD ROM, In-
terplay Productions, 714/553-6678, $79.95.
Elaborately detailed cartoon characters act out little dramas
of strategy and capture, complete with sound effects, in
this chess game that will drive nine-year-olds mad with glee
but may annoy experienced chess players. Mar 93
★ ★★ Blackjack Trainer, ConJelCo, 41 2/492-
9210, $75. Learn the strategies you need to win at
blackjack with this program. There are a number of trivial
bugs, but they won't get in the way. Oct 93
Cogito 1.0, Inline Design, 203/435-
4995, $59.95. Rubik’s Cube fans will like this challenging
game where the goal is to replicate a pattern by moving
rows and columns of tiles. It gets more and more complex
as you progress through the 120 levels. Apr 93
ifirif Daily Sports Quiz 1.0, DreamTime, 619/
236-1341, $49.95. If you think you know a lot about
sports and love to play trivia games, then this entertaining
and informative game is for you. Oct 93
★ ★★★ Falcon MC 1.0, Spectrum HoloByte,
510/522-1164, $69.95. Whether you’re an armchair
jet jockey or an experienced fighter pilot, you’re bound to
be impressed by the 4-bit color, enhanced graphics, and
sophistication of this latest incarnation of the original Mac-
intosh combat flight simulator. Dec 93
irifir Hell Cab 1.0.2, Time Warner Interac-
tive Group, 818/955-9999, $99.99. Take a diabolical
New York cabbie with a penchant for time travel, toss in
the Empire State Building, add a few brainteasers, and you've
got this engaging game on CD-ROM. It's slow and the ar-
cade sections are hard to control, but overall It succeeds.
Jan 94
★ ★★★ Hellcats Over the Pacific 1.0.3,
Graphic Simulations, 214/699-7400, $69.95. Fly
a WWII-era Navy fighter, the Grumman F6F Hellcat, against
enemy planes in the South Pacific with this flight simulator
that offers smooth graphics, good special effects, and great
documentation. Apr 93
ificic Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis,
LucasArts Games, 415/721-3300, $59.95. In this
game, the whip-wielding archaeologist goes looking for
Atlantis and finds it armed to the gills with magical technol-
ogy and Nazi stooges. If you're not bothered by the story’s
astonishing sexism, you'll find it diverting. Oct 93
iriiricic insanity 1.0, UV Wave, 318/868-
9944, $39.95. Shoot your Mac with this cool control
panel device that offers a choice of nine weapons, ranging
from an Uzi to a pigeon. It has first-rate sound effects and
detailed animation, but the novelty wears off. Feb 93
★ ★★★ Jewelbox 1.5, Varcon Systems, 619/
563-6700, $49.95. This gem of a game is strongly remi-
niscent of Tetris. The jewels fall into rows that disappear
when you place three jewels of a kind together. Jun 93
★ ★★ The Journeyman Project, Presto Stu-
dios, 619/689-4895, $99.95. Interactive
science-fiction epic on CD-ROM is a work of art. The scenes
are rich with painstakingly detailed graphics, elaborate
models, and subtle textures, but the sluggish pace may leave
you impatient and bored. Sep 93
'k'k'k'k Maelstrom 1.03, Ambrosia, P.O. Box
23140, Rochester, NY 14692-3140, $15 plus $5
shipping and handling. Fast-paced arcade game is
loosely modeled after Asteroids, the Atari classic. Maelstrom
features superb animation, hilarious sound effects, exciting
action — and best of all, it's shareware. Jun 93
★ ★★★ Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge,
LucasArts Games, 415/721-3394, $59.95. This
whimsical Twilight Zone of life on the sea is the adventure-
game equivalent of Mad magazine, filled with splendid
gross-out jokes, heapings of self-parody, and enough hi-
larious detail to keep you amused for days. May 93
★ ★★ Mozart: The "Dissonant" Quartet, The
Voyager Company, 310/451-1383, $59.95. CD-
ROM includes an unusual essay on stringed instruments,
discussions of general musical concepts, an analytical over-
view of the quartet, and a taped minilecture on Mozart: but
the music is limited almost entirely to the title piece. Apr 93
ic ic The Orchestra: The Instruments Revealed,
Time Warner Interactive Group, 818/955-9999,
$79.98. The many-branched, interwoven, hypertext style
of this music-education CD-ROM makes it hard to navigate
and digest, despite its richness. For the price, other music-
education CD-ROMs present better values. Apr 93
★ ★ ★ ★ Poetry in Motion, The Voyager Com-
pany, 310/451-1383, $29.95. Performance videos
of contemporary poets are juxtaposed with the texts of their
poems and taped interviews in this intriguing CD-ROM that
combines the excitement of the stage with the reflective
appeal of the page. Feb 93
ifiriric Richard Strauss: Three Tone Poems,
The Voyager Company, 3 1 0/451 -1383, $59.95.
Don Juan, Till Eulenspiegel, and Death and Transfiguration
are included in this CD-ROM. The musical analysis is satis-
fying, and the lush orchestral music will appeal to bojh novice
and experienced classical music listeners. Apr 93
★ ★★ Rodney's Wonder Window, The Voy-
ager Company, 310/461-1383, $39.95. Collection
of 23 colorful, wacky graphics and animations by Rodney
Alan Creenblat is charming but uneven. While some mod-
ules are elaborate and sophisticated, others are simple and
not particularly interesting. Mar 93
★ ★★ Schubert: "The Trout" Quintet, The
Voyager Company, 310/451-1383, $59.95. Alan
Rich, classical music commentator for NPR, conveys his
enthusiasm for this appealing music in this CD-ROM's lively
text. The discussion is relatively unchallenging, and the per-
formance is not at the top of most reviewers' lists. Apr 93
'k'k'kir Seven Days in August, Time Warner
Interactive Group, 818/955-9999, $79.99. Com-
pelling, interactive documentary on CD-ROM cuts a slice
from history and offers August 1 0 through August 1 6, 1 961 ,
(the building of the Berlin Wall) to viewers in a way that
truly evokes the period. Oct 93
icir'k Sherlock Holmes, Consulting Detective,
Volume II, Icom Simulations, 708/520-4440,
$69.95. Match wits with the legendary detective by solv-
ing three difficult mysteries in this CD-ROM game. May 93
★ ★★ SimLife, Maxis, 510/254-9700, $69.95.
A megalomaniac’s dream come true, this amazingly intri-
cate simulation lets players create and control ecosystems.
It's not easy, but the reward is an increased understanding
of the complex interrelationships of life. Feb 93
★ ★★★ So I've Heard, Volume 1: Bach and
Before, The Voyager Company, 310/451-1383,
$24.95. Engaging text describes nearly two millennia of
western music (up to the mid-eighteenth century) in this
CD-ROM. It offers a unique opportunity to sample 50 or so
performances, styles, and compositions. Feb 93
'k'kif Space Quest 1: Roger Wilco in the
Sarien Encounter, Sierra Online, 209/683-8989,
$1 9.95. As Roger Wilco, starship janitor, you must defeat
the evil Sariens in this adventure game where your head is
more important than your hands. For most players the game
will be easy to complete. Apr 93
★ ★ ★ ★ Spectre Supreme, Velocity Develop-
ment, 415/274-8840, $69.95 to $89.95. The
pleasure of this game comes not in high scores, but in the
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tank around the screen. It's so much fun that it's even fun
when you lose. Dec 93
'kitUr Super Mines 1.0, Callisto Corp., 508/
655-0707, $49.95. You use logic to search a minefield
without setting off mines in this fast-paced game that's easy
to learn, but offers 84 levels for long playability. Apr 93
★★★ V for Victory: Utah Beach, Three-Sixty
Pacific, 408/879-9144, ext. 23, $69.95. The post-
D-Day conquest of Normandy is re-created in this game; its
strength is the way it blends easy play with complicated
strategy. Some bugs exist. Oct 93
★ ★★★ Who Killed Sam Rupert, Creative
Multimedia Corp., 503/241-4351, $39.99. You're
a police detective trying to solve the murder of a popular
restaurateur In this interactive CD-ROM that exploits the
full range of multimedia options and provides a wealth of
clues and surprises to hold your Interest. May 93
FINANCE/ACCOUNTING
★★ Andrew Tobias' TaxCut for Macintosh,
MECA Software, 203/256-5000, $79.95. The oc-
casionally awkward interface of this personal tax-preparation
software doesn't follow every Mac standard, but the help
system is very good. State versions are available for Califor-
nia and New York. May 93
★★★★ BestBooks 1.0, Teleware, 201/586-
2200, $99. In a straightforward, unintimidating manner,
this small-business accounting program integrates the stan-
dard bookkeeping functions of accounts receivable, accounts
payable, and general ledger. Jul 93
iti^ Business 5ense 1.6, 5oftware Develop-
ers Consortium, 801/288-2216, $199. Competent,
single-user, all-in-one bookkeeping package will adequately
help you keep the books for a small company, but it's not
as easy to use as its competition. Feb 93
★ ★★ MacInTax 1992, Chip5oft, 619/453-
8722, $79.95. It's difficult to correct your errors when
using this personal tax-preparation software, but it's easier
than doing your taxes by hand. The display is attractive and
the program supports electronic filing. May 93
★ ★★★ Quicken 4, Intuit, 415/898-6095,
$69.95. Personal-finance software is powerful and easy
to learn, even for a financial neophyte. Although slower
than previous versions, 4.0 lives up to its promise of making
financial chores easier and better organized. Nov 93
WealthBuilder 2.0, Reality Technolo-
gies, 800/346-2024, $79.99. Financial-planning
software forces you to think about your money and helps
you develop an investment plan. It's a good program for
beginning investors, but more-sophisticated investors will
want more-advanced features. May 93
GRAPHICS
iiT'k'k addDepth 1 .0.2, Ray Dream, 41 5/960-
0768, $1 79. The purpose of this graphics program is to
enhance the creation of 2-D images with 3-D effects. It's
versatile, accommodating, and affordable, but working on
complex images gets tedious because of the automatic ap-
plication of styles. Aug 93
★ ★★ Adobe Dimensions, Adobe 5ystems,
415/961-4400, $199. This three-dimensional-effects
utility may seem very limited, with white-only light and no
surface texturing, but it's a ground-breaking product. It
performs Its 3-D illusions within the object-oriented, reso-
lution-independent world of PostScript. Apr 93
Adobe Illustrator 5.0, Adobe 5ystems,
41 5/961 -4400, $595. The Mac's most dependable draw
program has added enough new features to boggle the mind.
It still can't import TIFF images, but it catches up with, and
in some areas surpasses, the competition. Nov 93
'k'k'kir Adobe Photoshop 2.5, Adobe 5ys-
tems, 415/961-4400, $895. No graphics program is
as universally loved as this one, but while this upgrade builds
on the program's capabilities, it ignores some minor weak-
nesses that have begun to peek through the product's armor.
It's still great but perhaps not perfect. Jun 93
krirkrir Alias 5ketch 1 .5, Alias Research, 41 6/
362-91 81 , $995. The enhanced modeling and revamped
rendering capabilities of this 3-D Illustration program con-
tribute to a tremendous and reliable upgrade, a heartening
example of a company listening to Its users. Jul 93
icir ArtBeat Professional 1.0, Pie Practical
5olutions, 201/902-9500, $249. Despite a smat-
tering of unique capabilities, this inexpensive draw/paint
program lacks features of equivalent programs. Apr 93
'k'k'k artworks 1.0, Deneba 5oftware, 305/
596-5644, $149. If you're expecting a graphics dynamo,
this combination paint and draw program will leave you a
little cold. Despite its flaws, it ranks as one of the best graphics
programs available under $200. Jun 93
★ ★★★ Blueprint 4.0, Graphsoft, 410/461-
9488, $295. Entry-level 2-D drafting program is a
wonderful antidote to the complicated CAD system blues.
Don't be misled by the low price; this full-fledged drafting
package is powerful enough to serve professionals who
appreciate the value of simplicity. Jul 93
krir Brush5trokes 1.0, Claris Clear Choice,
408/727-8227, $139. If you have absolutely no expe-
rience with computer graphics, the simplified interface of
this 24-bit paint program might warrant Its price. Other-
wise, you can find better programs for less. Oct 93
irickr CA-Cricket Draw III 2.0, Computer As-
sociates International, 516/342-5224, $249. Draw
program is not going to inspire experienced Mac artists to
jump up and down, but its features are abundant, the Inter-
face is straightforward, and the price Is right. Oct 93
★★★ Canvas 3.5, Deneba 5oftware, 305/596-
5644, $399. Draw program offers two to three times as
many features as any competing program, but our reviewer
would prefer an interface that you can navigate without
scrambling for the manual. Jan 94
★ ★★ Color It 2.0.1, Timeworks, 708/559-
1300, $299.95. Overpriced color paint program has a
full range of painting and image-retouching capabilities,
including 15 levels of undo and an impressive magic-wand
tool, but its naming conventions are bewildering. Apr 93
kiK ColorUp 1.0, Pantone, 201/935-5500,
$99.95. Professional graphic designers don't need the
advice of this color tutorial and series of palettes. Although
nonprofessionals might benefit from the information on color
theory, it may not be worth the money. Nov 93
★ ★ CPM Graphic Tutor 1 & 2, Caseys' Page
Mill, 303/220-1463, $489 per volume. Although
some neophytes may find these CD-ROM tutorials on Adobe
Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop helpful, the programs' dis-
tracting interfaces, inconsistent execution, lack of polish,
and high price weigh strongly against them. May 93
■kkkkr DeBabelizer 1.5, Equilibrium Tech-
nologies, 415/332-4343, $299. Bitmapped-
graphics-conversion software supports a huge number of
file formats and can work wonders. If you spend any sig-
nificant time dealing with file conversion, you should have
this program. Nov 93
k Easy Color Paint 3.0, MECC, 61 2/569-1 500,
$59.95. For a program that purports simplicity, this color
paint program is anything but. Possibly the weakest, least
intuitive paint program for the Mac, it's unnecessarily com-
plex and frustrating. Jul 93
kkkk Electric image Animation System
1.5.1, Electric Image, 818/577-1627, $7495. The
most powerful animation program for the Mac improves its
documentation and rendering, and adds an intuitive project
window. Unfortunately, it still retails for the price of a Euro-
pean vacation for two. Feb 93
kkk Expert Draw 1 .0, Expert Software, 305/
567-9990, $49.95. Inexpensive draw program is not
really for experts, but It offers a decent, no-frills set of basic
drawing tools and commands for beginning illustrators, of-
fice use, or anyone on a budget. Aug 93
kkkk Folio 1 Media Kit-Print Pro, D'Pix,
614/299-7192, $499.95. Each image in this texture
collection on three CD-ROMs provides a dynamic range of
colors, highlights, and shadows; is free of artifacts: and is
crisply focused. Aug 93
kkkk Fractal Design Painter 2.0, Fractal
Design Corp., 408/688-8800, $399. If you can put
up with a few inconveniences, this color paint software pro-
vides the tools required by professional artists, and many of
its functions — natural-media brush tools, the color-sensi-
tive magic wand — are entirely without peer. Jul 93
★ ★★ Generic CADD 2.0, Autodesk, 206/487-
2233, $495. Competent, midlevel 2-D drafting program
has a well-executed Mac interface, a good complement of
tools, and a sprinkling of high-end features, such as float-
ing-point precision. Aug 93
kk Image Assistant 1.0, Caere Corp., 408/
395-7000, $495. Besides unsatisfactorily addressing
Adobe Photoshop's small list of liabilities, this image-edit-
ing software's problems include an unforgivable lack of
antialiased text, no selective revert function, and an incor-
rectly implemented smudge tool. Apr 93
kkkk Kai's Power Tools Volume 1 1.0 (2.0),
HSC Software, 310/392-8441, $149. Although at
times monstrously complicated, this collection of Photoshop
plug-ins represents a virtually infinite supply of visual re-
sources. It's an amazing tool that no regular Photoshop user
should be without. May 93
kkkk MiniCAD+ 4, Graphsoft, 410/461-
9488, $795. Professionals will appreciate this highly
competent CAD package's evolution into 3-D. It maintains
its features-champion status and is easier to use. Mar 93
kkk Ofoto 2.0, Light Source Computer Im-
ages, 415/461-8000, $395. Many new features —
notably color support — have been added to the already
Impressive toolbox of this scanning software. It often pro-
duces good results, but it rarely produces the best scan
possible for a given image and output method. Jul 93
kkkk Paint It 1.0, Timeworks, 708/559-
1300, $59.95. Straightforward color paint program lacks
image-editing tools but has a versatile cast of selection and
painting tools— and it's priced to sell. Apr 93
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★ ★★★ PosterWorks 3.0, S. H. Pierce & Co.,
61 7/338-2222, $395. This large-format graphics pro-
duction tool is for people who think big, up to 1 0,000 square
feet big. It fills the need for user-defined, full-color, large-
format output robustly and elegantly. Aug 93
★ ★★★ PowerDraw 4.0, Engineered Soft-
ware, 919/299-4843, $795. The best new feature of
this polished 2-D drafting program is an open architecture
that supports modules that let you customize the program
with application-specific tools, floating palettes, and menu
commands. Sep 93
★ ★★★ Sketcher, Fractal Design Corp., 408/
688-8800, $149. A variety of effects reproduce tech-
niques of traditional drawing tools with this wonderful
gray-scale paint and image processing program. Feb 93
★★ StrataType 3d 1.0 (2.0), Strata, 801/628-
5218, $199. The rulers, texture palette, custom bevels,
and canned positioning schemes of this 3-D type-effects
software are nice, but they can’t compare with the anima-
tion skills, lighting capabilities, and superb rendering of other
available programs. Mar 93
★★★ Transverter Pro 1.0, TechPooi, 216/291-
1922, S395. Remarkable graphics-conversion software
can read PostScript files and convert them to a variety of
formats. As you might expect of a program attempting to
fill such a tall order, its conversions are not always flawless,
but it can be a lifesaver nonetheless. Nov 93
★★★ Tree, Onyx Computing, 61 7/876-3876,
$295. Single-purpose program generates lifelike color draw-
ings of trees from a number of easily controlled parameters.
Although visually appealing, it’s an expensive way to dravy
a tree. May 93
'k'kif upFront 2.0, Alias Research, 416/362-
91 81 , $299. Capable modeler is something of an acquired
taste. However, take the time to learn it and you’ll find
useful, if unconventional and demanding, tools that are well
suited for architectural modeling. Jan 94
★★★ Virtus WalkThrough 1 .1 .3, Virtus Corp.,
919/467-9700, $495. Interactive 3-D modeling tool
provides Instantaneous access to rendered 3-D scenes, al-
lowing you to travel through models at will. While it has
some problems (such as occasionally just quitting), it’s an
excellent value. Jul 93
★★★ Wraptures One, Wraptures Two, Form
and Function, 619/536-9999, $95 each. The im-
ages in these texture collections on CD-ROM are generally
acceptable, although some are muddy and others are diffi-
cult to decipher at low resolutions. If you need images for
repeating patterns, however, these repeat seamlessly and
are a good value. Aug 93
MATH/SCIENCE
ifif'k Alchemy III, Tripos Associates, 314/647-
1099, $950. Molecular-modeling software can model
decapeptides and DNA fragments, in addition to the ex-
pected small molecules, with refreshing alacrity on a Mac
llci or better. Sep 93
'k^'k Amazing Universe 2.1, Hopkins Tech-
nology, 612/931-9376, $79.95. Space-image
exploration package on CD-ROM offers an amazing vari-
ety of astronomical images with a very competent program
(Provision II) for modifying and inspecting those images. It
assumes that users won’t be fazed by such things as writing
their own image-convolution matrices. Aug 93
★ ★★★ Circuit/Waker 3.0, Microcode Engi-
neering, 801/226-4470, $200. Much of the tedium
of diagramming circuits and constructing prototypes is re-
lieved by this digital circuit simulator that provides a powerful
set of basic tools for a very reasonable price. Aug 93
idfiKk Data Desk 4.0 (4.1), Data Descrip-
tion, 607/257-1000, $595. For finding patterns in
data, this statistical-analysis program has no peer. Years of
refinement have made it a uniquely valuable tool, despite
its lack of some tests found in larger programs. May 93
★ ★★★ Expressionist 3.0 (3.01), Prescience
Corp., 415/543-2252, $199.95. If you work regu-
larly on similar topics, you can customize this equation-writing
software to produce equations with exactly the appearance
you want, letting you work at amazing speed. Mar 93
'kkiir Hz) 6, Lascaux Graphics, 602/299-0661 ,
$115. The main problem this math software attacks is four-
dimensional visualization. It costs slightly more than a
textbook, making it a great educational bargain. Sep 93
★★★ FASTAT 2.0, SYSTAT, 708/864-5670,
$495. Statistical business-analysis software makes sense
as a day-to-day statistics tool. It provides the right tests for
most requirements, and its graph types provide plenty of
information, although they lack glamour. Jun 93
★★★★ HiQ 2.0, Bimillennium Corp., 408/
354-751 1 , $995. The three great strengths of this nu-
merical mathematics software are Its fast differential-
equation -solving section, its excellent matrix-math capa-
bilities, and its natural notebook-format interface. Sep 93
★★★ InStat 2.01, GraphPad Software, 619/
457-3909, $95. For scientists with limited statistics back-
grounds, the chatty clarity of this lab-oriented statistics
software’s help screens will be invaluable, while the limited
variables and minimal graphics won’t be a problem. Nov 93
★ ★★ LabTutor 2.0, J. K. Eaton, 415/723-
1971, $50. Tutorial on laboratory computer-interfacing
provides a detailed, thorough exposition of computer inter-
facing in general, but it requires LabView and a National
Instruments interface board for its exercises. Sep 93
★ ★★★ MacPhase 1.2, Otter Solutions, 315/
768-3956, $159. Low-cost, scientific-data-visualization
software with an assortment of mathematical tools is an
authentic bargain. A principal strength is a well-planned color
lookup table editor that’s delightfully easy to use. May 93
★ ★★ MathCAD 3.1, MathSoft, 617/577-
1017, $495. Numerical and symbolic computation
software is easy to learn and use, and it is much more pow-
erful than earlier versions. It does not compete in scope
with the largest mathematics programs, but for most sci-
ence and engineering tasks, it is a quick way to get problems
solved. Jun 93
★★★★ Mathematica 2.2, Wolfram Research,
217/398-0700, $595. The one essential program in
science and mathematics adds a function browser that makes
the program as easy to use as it should be, as well as im-
provements to computational routines. Sep 93
★ ★★★ AAathType 3.0, Design Science, 310/
433-0685, $199. This equation-writing software makes
automatic typographical decisions, which is helpful If you
produce documents on a wide range of subjects. Its smooth
integration with Microsoft Word Is also convenient. Mar 93
★★★ QC Tools 1.0, Abacus Concepts, 510/
540-1949, $245. Quality-control tool kit for StatView
appears to introduce a slight slowdown in program re-
sponse, but is generally well designed, well documented.
and suitable for quality-control neophytes as well as pro-
fessionals. Jan 94
★★★★ Spyglass Dicer 2.0, Spyglass, 217/
355-6000, $695. Scientific 3-D visualization tool dis-
plays a two-dimensional slice through a three-dimensional
object (which is represented in the computer by a data table).
While Dicer pushes the limits of the Mac hardware, for its
function this product is really the only game in town. Jul 93
★★★ Spyglass Transform 3.0, Spyglass, 21 7/
355-6000, S595. Scientific-visualization software can
access data stored in every common format, offers some
useful presentation-graphics features, and includes a pro-
gramming language with a large range of built-in, high-level
scientific functions. Sep 93
★★★★ StatView 4.01, Abacus Concepts,
510/540-1949, $595. If your work uses statistics for
decision support rather than abstract analysis, and you regu-
larly have to present your results to nonstatisticians, this is
the statistics package for you. Oct 93
★★★ Sum Total 1.01, Concurrent Engineer-
ing Tools, 602/464-8208, $99.95. Exceptional
calculator utility Is packed witji advanced features, includ-
ing a mode that lets you sample colors and use the numerical
color values in calculations. The convenient palette approach
causes a distinct time-lag in menu operations. Oct 93
★ ★★★ Theorist 1.5, Prescience Corp., 415/
543-2252, $449.95. Symbolic-math program that you
can figure out by yourself adds a useful table feature, more
special functions of physics, and better graphics. It’s still
the only program to use real notation directly. May 93
iririrk Visualization of Natural Phenomena,
Telos/Springer Verlag, 408/249-9314, $59.95.
CD-ROM introduction to applying all aspects of computer
graphics to scientific imaging: covers all disciplines and of-
fers definitive analysis of methods. No other source covers
this much material, at this level of clarity. Jan 94
★★★★★ Voyager II, Carina Software, 510/
352-7328, $159.95. If a brilliantly lit, star-filled sky
holds more than a moment’s fascination for you, you need
to know about this astronomy program. In a firmament of
mostly faint and forgettable astronomy software, it’s a su-
pernova. Jul 93
ORGANIZATION/PRODUCTIVITY
kkk Achieving Your Career 1.02, Up Soft-
ware, 415/921-4691, $69. HyperCard-based
job-search software succeeds by compactly organizing. It
provides a structure for identifying letters to write, phone
calls to make, and interviews to follow up. Aug 93
★ ★ ACT 1.0 (1.01), Contact Software Inter-
national, 214/919-9500, $395. While this contact
manager has several laudable features, such as customizable
contact views and an integrated word processor, learning
how to use it is a frustrating experience. Feb 93
kkkkr CalendarMaker 4.0, CE Software,
515/224-1995, $59.95. Polished, intuitive calendar-
making program is straightforward, with a variety of options
for customizing your calendar. Some features can be cum-
bersome. Oct 93
kk ClienTrac 1.7.1, Whiskey Hill Software,
415/851-8702, $135. Easy-to-use, HyperCard-based
contact-management software performs as billed, but fails
to inspire much enthusiasm. Aug 93
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★ ★★ Contact Ease 2.0.1, WestWare, 619/
660-0356, $395 to $1495. Contact-management and
sales-automation software helps salespeople keep in touch
with contacts, makes it easy to generate letters, and main-
tains detailed records of activities. It has a few quirks but is
overall a good program. Aug 93
★★★★ DateBook 1.5.1 (1 . 5. li). After Hours
Software, 818/780-2220, $125. Personal time man-
ager offers a flexible approach to event scheduling and
to-do-list management. This upgrade adds new features and
fixes bugs that plagued the first version. Feb 93
★★★★ DayAftaker 2.0 (2.03), Pastel Devel-
opment Corp., 212/941-7500, $129.95. If you
need to organize lots of disparate information, follow up on
meetings with many people, create an archive of completed
work, and print out lists of to-do items, this free-form per-
sonal information manager is a great choice. May 93
★★★ Dynodex 3.0, Portfolio Software, 408/
252-0420, $89.95. The speed and printing options of
this field-based address-book manager are its strengths, but
this upgrade adds welcome improvements to the interface,
including automatic formatting of phone numbers. Apr 93
★★★★ In Control 2.0, Attain Corp., 61 7/776-
1110, $1 29.95. The best features of an outlining program
are combined with those of a database, making it easy to
sort, search, organize, and print your to-do list. Aug 93
★★★★ Inspiration 4.0, Inspiration Software,
503/245-9011, $295. Watch your ideas evolve in a
dynamic diagram mode and a text-based outline mode with
this brainstorming tool. Feb 93
irifii: Intouch 2.0.4, Advanced Software, 408/
733-0745, $99.95. Free-form database is a fast and
easy way to manage contact information. Although this
version adds a handy reminder system, it falls short as a
calendar planner. Feb 93
★ ★★ LapTrack For the AAac 1.0b, Timeslips
Corp., 508/768-6100, $79.95. Time- and expense-
tracking program offers the right features for the on-the-go
professional, but the interface is overcomplicated and the
documentation is sloppy. Still, in spite of its flaws, it does
an excellent job. May 93
★ ★★★ Now Up-to-Date 2.0, Now Software,
503/274-2800, $99 to $799. Calendar utility com-
bines flexibility, ease-of-use, and streamlined operations in
an almost irresistible package. The Reminder control panel,
while a great new feature, has had minor conflicts. Jun 93
★★★ Power Team 1 .0, ProVue Development
Corp., 714/892-8199, $149.95. Personal informa-
tion manager consists of seven modules: Phone Book,
Calendar, Correspondence, Checkbook, Calculator, Expense
Report, and Mailing List. It has some bugs, but the data
entry features are excellent. Oct 93
★★ Rae Assist 1.0.2, Rae Technology, 408/
725-2850, $199. This personal information manager
offers some fresh ideas, like automatic linking of company
and contact info, but it’s too big and slow. Jan 94
★★★★ Spiral 1 .0 (1 .02), Technology Works,
512/794-8533, $129. Designed specifically for taking
and organizing notes, this product has an excellent feature
set, but it’s marred by some errors in the editing and im-
port/export processes. Mar 93
★ ★ TimeVision 1.0, Powercore, 815/468-
3737, $99. New scheduler with notepad and card-file
functions tacked on has some worthwhile features, but in
general doesn't match up to the competition. May 93
PRESENTATION TOOLS
'kii^'kir Action 1 .0 (1 .02), /Wacromedia, 41 5/
252-2000, $495. Entry-level multimedia integration
program offers, for its price, a rich selection of features,
including a variety of transitions as well as gradient and
patterned backgrounds. Feb 93
★ ★★★ Adobe Premiere 3.0, Adobe Systems,
415/961-4400, $695. Solid and dependable Quick-
Time video-editing software offers a structured, responsive,
and flexible interface with enhancements that range from
mundane to dramatic. It can now mix 99 tracks. Jan 94
Astound 1.0, Gold Disk, 408/982-
0200, $399. Presentation software lets you include sound,
text, and graphics animation with no more effort than past-
ing in a chart in other products. It’s a good value. Nov 93
★ ★ Comet CG 1.0.3, MSI, 317/842-5097,
$995. Program for generating antialiased text over live
video is reasonably priced compared with dedicated graph-
ics systems, but you’re likely to be as astonished by its
limitations as you are impressed by its capabilities. May 93
★ ★★★ CoS A After Effects 1.1, CoS A, 401/
831-2672, $1295. QuickTime movie editor blurs the
boundaries between animation and traditional video-edit-
ing. It produces results that simply can’t be created in other
packages. Oct 93
if'k'k Hi Rez Audio Volume 1.0, Presto Stu-
dios, 619/689-4895, 5149.95. The enjoyable,
high-quality music on this CD-ROM adds a nice touch to
presentations. The software for browsing the music is quirky,
and the product could use some documentation. Jul 93
★★★ Interactive Training for Director 1.1,
Media In Motion, 41 5/62 1 -0707, $1 99. This some-
what expensive program teaches basic Macromedia Director
skills and provides a foundation for exploring Director’s other
features. It has a clear, often lighthearted approach, but
navigating the lessons can be frustrating. Jun 93
★ ★★ Macromedia Director 3.1 (3.1.1),
Macromedia, 415/252-2000, $1195. Versatile
multimedia authoring tool adds 23 scripting commands,
QuickTime, and a utility that compiles movies into a faster
playback format — along with a whopping $149 addition to
the price. Feb 93
'k'k'k Media-Pedia Video Clips, Media-Pedia,
617/235-5617, $195 to $495. Fifty-seven minutes
of stock footage for use in QuickTime movies includes over
1 50 different segments, ranging from unremarkable to dra-
matic to genuinely funny. Apr 93
'k'k'k'k Microsoft PowerPoint 3.0, Microsoft,
206/882-8080, $495. This presentation program is
ahead of the pack in terms of convenience and ease of use.
Although the ready-made template collection is pretty pal-
try, the extensive system of master layers, reliable
cross-platform compatibility, and strong on-screen presen-
tation capabilities more than compensate. Feb 93
irir MovieWorks 1.1, Interactive Solutions,
415/377-0136, $395. Over 100 bugs were fixed in
version 1 .1 of this multimedia authoring software that takes
an all-in-one approach to creating presentations, but prob-
lems remain. It’s a good idea, poorly executed. Jun 93
irifir Passport Producer 1.0, Passport De-
signs, 415/726-0280, $495. Strong timing controls
and good sound capabilities mix with middling text- and
image-handling and a lack of basic animation options in
this partially successful multimedia program. Apr 93
★★★ Special Delivery 1.0 (1.1), Interactive
Media Corp., 41 5/948-0745, $399. While this en-
try-level multimedia package has all the tools you need to
assemble interactive screen presentations that burst with
motion and sound, it has a disorienting interface and lacks
the polish and power of other programs. Mar 93
★ ★★ VideoFusion 1.0.1, VideoFusion, 419/
891-1090, $649. Collection of special effects for Quick-
Time movies may not be for the casual user, but if you have
the equipment and you can't live without spinning logos,
then go ahead and indulge. Jul 93
★★★★ Working Model 1.0, Knowledge
Revolution, 415/553-8153, $995. Animators and
engineers will love this terrific motion simulator that mimics
real motion by applying physical laws to objects. It's easy to
learn and use, but you’ll need some understanding of math
and physics. Oct 93
PROGRAMMING
'kic'k CLImate 1.0, Orchard Software, 617/
876-4608, $59.95. With a little more documentation
and a few more sample programs, this utility that provides
a subset of Unix-like commands for the Mac environment
could be an irresistable package. Oct 93
★ ★★ EISToolKit 2.0, MicroStrategy, 302/
427-8800, $1995. Reliable, field-tested developer’s
environment for creating executive information systems
provides automatic access to information in spreadsheets
and databases across a distributed system. May 93
iririKir FutureBASIC 1.0, Zedcor, 602/881-
8101, $299.95. Complete, easy-to-learn, real-world
programming tool has full Toolbox, System 7, and assem-
bler support. It's a wonderful tool that’s rapidly becoming a
favorite among commercial developers. Jul 93
★ ★★ Macintosh Common Lisp 2.0, APDA,
716/871-6555, $495. Anyone who likes programming
in LISP wilt be pleased with the environment provided by
this version of the standard dialect and its extensive debug-
ging and interface-building facilities. Oct 93
ic'kic MetaDesign for the Macintosh 3.0,
Meta Software Corp., 61 7/576-6920, $250. This
diagramming tool for structured systems analysis offers easy
ways to group and ungroup symbols in diagrams and to
show relationships between symbols. It excels at austere,
classic flowcharts but could use some flashier features, such
as shaded backgrounds, for presentations. Mar 93
irirk Object Logo Student Edition, Paradigm
Software, 61 7/576-7675, $49.95. This book-plus-
disk package offers a wide-ranging introduction to
programming concepts. It's aimed roughly at the high-school
educational level and lets you see something happen for
every few lines of code you type. Jul 93
★ ★★★ PG:Pro 1.5, Staz Software, 601/255-
7085, $169. For part-time or novice programmers, the
combination of these BASIC programming tools and
FutureBASIC is a fast path to a working program. Jul 93
★ ★★ PowerPacks 2.0, NDG Phoenix, 301/
718-8880, $225. Programmers’ tool kit for 4th Dimen-
sion provides 280 external procedures to improve custom
applications and exploit System 7 features. Don’t expect
any quick fixes for 4D’s less-than-blistering performance in
most areas, though. Oct 93
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MACWORLD
703/478-0181, $295. Program-quality-assurance utility
systematically checks the resources in a program’s interface
against a huge laundry list of errors. It's a programming
tool for anyone who hopes to produce a commercial Mac
application. Sep 93
★ ★★ SourceSafe 2.1, One Tree Software,
919/821-2300, $295 to $1195. Solid, relatively easy-
to-use product handles program-development administrative
tasks, including version control, for multiplatform programs
being created by groups. Sep 93
iK'k'k'k Symantec C-f-i- for Macintosh 6.0,
Symantec Corp., 408/253-9600, S499. If you like
Think C, you'll like this software-development system, too.
For the Mac, it's an excellent opportunity to catch a new
wave In programming. Nov 93
UTILITIES
★★★ 7th Heaven 2.5, Logical Solutions, 61 2/
659-2495, $99.95. Our reviewer found the seven en-
hancements to System 7 fun and elegantly done, but not all
of them were useful. Jul 93
iicir'k Alki Seek 2.1, Alki Software Corp., 206/
286-2600, $39.95. Competent file-finding utility scans
by file name or content and lets you combine multiple search
criteria. It cannot search in the background or find text in
compressed files. Jul 93
★ ★★★ At Ease 1.0 (1.1), Apple Computer,
408/996-1010, $59. Sweet, simple, secure substitute
for the Finder displays a clean, attractive page full of over-
size icons where a single click launches a program or
document. To delete, rename, or move files, you have to
return to the Finder. Mar 93
★ ★★ Billy Steinberg's PBTools 1.0.1, Inline
Design, 203/435-4995, $99.95. If you want basic
PowerBook management without added frills or complex
menu bar displays, this collection of four utilities may be
just your cup of tea. Jul 93
'k'k'k Chameleon 2.0.3, Logical Solutions,
612/659-2495, $59.95. Sleek desktop-pattern editor
comes with an ample supply of rich, textured color images
and a set of limited but functional editing tools. Sep 93
if'k'k'k ClickChange 2.0, Dubl-Click Software,
818/888-2068, $89.95. Interface-customizing pack-
age has nothing you need but is filled with everything you
want, including tools that let you alter major elements of
the Mac's look-and-feel. Aug 93
★ ★★★ Conflict Catcher and Other Innova-
tive Utilities 1.0 (1.3.8), Casady & Greene, 408/
484-9228, $79.95. Enable or disable INITs and start-
up items when you boot, with this INIT manager that comes
with four other system -related utilities. It’s a worthwhile
investment even if you own another INIT manager. Mar 93
'kit'k Connectix Desktop Utilities 1.0, Con-
nectix Corp., 415/571-5100, $99. Although some
of the 16 utilities offered in this package are more at home
on a PowerBook, this collection offers one-stop shopping
at a low price. It's worth it for the file-synchronization. Key-
board Power and Hot Keys features alone. Nov 93
★ ★★★ CopyDoubler 2.0 (2.0.1), Fifth Gen-
eration Systems, 504/291-7221, $59. This utility
speeds up copying, lets you queue jobs for background copy-
ing, and offers a variety of other useful, copying-oriented
features — all at a very reasonable price. Nov 93
★★★ Copyright Pro 1 .0.3, CSG Technologies,
412/471-7170, $79. Utility takes over the Finder's
copying function, copies in the background, and allows you
to regularly schedule copying. It doesn’t speed up copying,
however. Nov 93
★ ★★★ CPU 2.0, Connectix Corp., 415/571-
5100, $99. Reasonably priced collection of utilities for
the PowerBook adds new features, including file synchroni-
zation. that easily justify the upgrade price. Sep 93
ificif DiskFit Direct 1 .0, Dantz Development
Corp., 510/849-0293, $49.95. Basic but efficient
backup system Is simple ard painless enough to foster bet-
ter backup habits In anyone who uses it. It doesn’t back up
to hard drives or tape drives. May 93
★ ★★★ DiskLock PB 1.0, Symantec/Fifth
Generation Systems, 504/291-7221, $59. Power-
Book security software balances robust security with simplicity
and ease of use. It’s much harder to crack than most Power-
Book utility collections’ security features, and will keep out
all but the most determined. Jan 94
'k'k'k DriveShare 1.03, Casa Blanca Works,
415/461-2227, $149.95. Utility allows users to share
a removable drive over a network. It's most useful If your
network consists of both System 6 and System 7 users, as
its advantages over System 7 file sharing are slight. Nov 93
ir DriveTech 1.0, MicroMat Computer Sys-
tems, 415/898-6227, $59.95. Without decent
documentation or clearer error messages, this floppy drive
cleaning and diagnostic program is essentially a $60 floppy
drive cleaning kit. Since you can buy a cleaning kit without
software for 510, that makes it a bad deal. Jan 94
itidc DupLocator 1.03, Midnight Software,
303/933-1013, $99. For new Macintosh users who
don't have a general file utility, this software that locates
duplicate files, as well as performs basic file commands such
as moving and renaming files, may be useful. Jan 94
-kif DynoPage 2.0, Portfolio Software, 408/
252-0420, S89.95. While this utility simplifies the print-
ing of booklets and double-sided pages. It doesn’t support
PostScript graphics, is incompatible with some popular ap-
plications, and has a buggy drag-and-drop feature. Jul 93
ic eDisk 1 .0, Alysis Software Corp., 41 5/566-
2263, $149.95. Driver-level compression software has
little to recommend It over file-level, idle-time compression
programs. The biggest drawback is the strong potential for
disk or file corruption. Oct 93
idrir 1 Like Icon, Baseline Publishing, 901/
682-9676, $59.95. Glitzy utility has tools for icon ed-
iting, has a nice library of icons, and can create animated
icons. Some basic features, such as a text tool, are missing,
and the animated icons are fun but impractical. Sep 93
idric Icon 7 (1.1), Inline Design, 203/435-
4995, $79.95. Simple, straightforward utility has a
streamlined and intuitive library feature for storing and re-
trieving icons, plus tools for icon editing. Its icon collection,
however, is pretty paltry. Sep 93
★ ★★ Icon-lt Pro 3.0.6, Olduvai Corp., 305/
670-1112, $129. Utility allows you to attach custom
tool bars to almost any application, including the Finder.
The interface is quirky, but you get used to it. Dec 93
★ ★★ INITPicker 3.0 (3.02), Inline Design,
203/435-4995, $79.95. This INIT manager’s ability
to load aliased INITs over a network will interest network
managers. While It disables problem INITs at start-up, it
doesn’t help you identify the cause of INIT conflicts that
don’t cause the Mac to crash at start-up. Mar 93
★ ★★★ Inline Sync 1.0 (1.01), Inline Design,
203/435-4995, $129.95. Keep the latest version of
your work on your portable machine and your desktop Mac
with this file-sync software. It’s easy to install, easy to use,
easy on the wallet, and does the job well. Mar 93
ififidK KidDesk 1.0, Edmark Corp., 206/556-
8484, $39.95. If you have young children who love to
experiment with your Mac, this desktop environment pro-
vides easily navigable play while protecting your files from
the havoc that little fingers can wreak. Jun 93
ifidf MacPak 1.0, Symantec/Fifth Genera-
tion Systems, 504/291-7221, $149. The quality
of this utility collection is uneven — some modules are
unpolished — but if you don’t already own AutoDoubler,
CopyDoubler, and a good file-management program, it’s
worth the price. Jan 94
if if Magic Typist 2.0, Olduvai Corp., 305/670-
1112, $12 9. If you want to speed up typing of repetitive
phrases or if you don’t have full use of your hands, this
utility, which automates typing of repetitive phrases, may
be useful, but some functions work erratically or not at all
In Microsoft Word. Sep 93
★ ★★★ Magnet 1.0 (1.01), No Hands Soft-
ware, 415/321-7340, $129.95. Automation aids file
management with this software. It creates "magnets’* that
trigger In response to user-specified events and automati-
cally look for files to copy, move, or alias. Feb 93
ifififif Mr. File 2.0, Softways, 408/978-
9167, $99. The well-designed background capabilities
of this Finder utility make it a handy tool for copying, find-
ing, moving, launching, and renaming files, although it has
a few interface quirks. Dec 93
if if if Norton Essentials for PowerBook 1.0,
Symantec Corp., 310/453-4600, $129. Uneven
collection of PowerBook utilities ranges from the useful In-
stant Access module, which automatically turns AppleTalk
on and off, to the relatively inaccurate Battery Gauge fea-
ture, which tries to tell you your battery's status. Apr 93
if if if Now Compress 1 .0, Now Software, 503/
274-2800, $99. Compression utility holds its own in a
crowded market; it’s easy to use, it's complete, and it com-
presses as well as or better than other options. Dec 93
ififif Now Fun, Now Software, 503/274-
2800, $69. Five control panels let you liven up your Mac
by customizing everything from menu colors to system
sounds. The Included screen-saver modules and desktop
patterns and pictures are fairly limited, though. Dec 93
ifififif Now Utilities 4.0.1, Now Software,
503/274-2800, $129. Many thoughtful Improvements
have been added to this collection of utilities, which is now
better integrated, more logically designed, and still an ex-
cellent deal for your dollar. The new scrapbook feature,
however, is awkward and Inconvenient. Aug 93
★ ★★ Peace of Mind 1.2.2, Polybus Systems
Corp., 716/871-6533, $149. Hardware diagnostic
tool performs exhaustive tests on major Mac hardware com-
ponents; does an excellent job of diagnosing simple simulated
hardware errors. The program has minor bugs and lacks a
comparative test-history feature. Jun 93
★ ★★★ PicturePress 2.5, Storm Technology,
415/691-6600, $199. This image-compression soft-
ware supports every useful storage mode, has new calculation
features for improved image fidelity, and is twice as fast as
version 2.0. Mar 93
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Power To Co 2.0, Claris Corp., 408/
727-8227, S99. PowerBook utility collection has a few
unique slants— including a floating palette that can display
battery-life estimates — that keep it above the also-rans. It
does lack features of similar products. Dec 93
★★★ PowerMerge 1.0.2, Leader Technolo-
gies, 714/757-1787, SI 29. File-synchronization utility
has a potentially confusing interface, but is a handy means
of updating selected files so that different Macs end up with
identical versions of the selected documents. Apr 93
Public Utilities for the Macintosh 1.0,
Fifth Generation Systems, 504/291-7221, SI 49.
Utility program sticks to the basics of disk diagnosis, disk
repair, and file optimization. It does a good, and in some
cases unique, job, although disk optimization is slow. Fifth
Generation's technical support Is excellent. Jun 93
idcif RapidTrak 1.0.1, Insignia Solutions,
41 5/694-7600, $99.95. If you've got RAM to spare,
this hard drive formatter offers driver-level RAM caching to
store frequently used data and improve performance, espe-
cially on slower-speed drives. May 93
'k'k'k Redux Deluxe 2.0.2, Inline Software,
203/435-4995, $79.95. Easy to learn and relatively
simple to use, this backup program has some powerful fea-
tures, such as scripting, but it doesn't have a compression
option. Jan 94
★ ★★★ Retrospect 2.0, Dantz Development
Corp., 510/849-0293, $249. Powerful backup and
archiving software has an improved interface and scripting
capabilities, and works well for all levels of users. Sep 93
'k'k'kir Retrospect Remote 2.0, Dantz De-
velopment Corp., 510/849-0293, $449. Utility
allows fast, automatic backup of networked Macs to a cen-
tral Mac with a backup device. It worked flawlessly in our
reviewer's tests. Sep 93
ir'k'ir Safe and Sound, Central Point Soft-
ware, 503/690-8090, $49.95. Limited but useful
disk-protection and -salvage utility has a clean, simple in-
terface and is an efficient emergency recovery tool. Jun 93
'At'A' Safe or Sorry 1.0, Olduvai Corp., 305/
670-1112, S59. Unobtrusive control panel periodically
saves all of your keystrokes, but requires System 7.1 and
offers no clear-cut advantages when compared with other
text-recovery programs. Oct 93
iKif SafeDeposit 1 .2, Dayna Communications,
801/269-7200, $189. Automated backup program is
easy to set up but slow. Also, unattended backups must be
restarted from scratch if disk space runs short and a new
disk isn’t inserted. Sep 93
'k'k'k'k Screenscapes 1.0.1, Kiwi Software,
805/685-4031, $44.95. With more than 600 desktop
patterns — and a suite of well-designed modules to trans-
form those patterns — this fun and frivolous utility lifts
desktop-pattern design to new heights of elegance. Nov 93
★ ★★ Square One 1.5.2, Binary Software,
310/582-8293, $74. Flexible, attractive icon-based file
launcher provides infinitely customizable palettes, includ-
ing one that displays active applications. The application
will consume 400K of your system memory. Aug 93
icif Stacker for the Macintosh 1.0.1, Stac
Electronics, 619/431-7474, SI 49. As long as you
pay attention to the capacity of your hard drive, this driver-
level compression product performs reasonably well, except
for Its slow hard drive read quotient. Oct 93
★ ★★★ Star Trek: The Screen Saver, Berke-
ley Systems, 510/540-5535, $59.95. Go where
no Mac has gone before with this screen saver based on the
original "Star Trek." May 93
★★★★ Star Wars Visual Clips, Sound Source
Unlimited, 805/494-9996, $89.95. Control panel
lets you play QuickTime movie clips from Star Wars at sys-
tem events. If you have the money, the hard drive space,
and the RAM, this is the kind of totally cool toy that will
make you remember why you love your Mac. Sep 93
'kifit'k Stuffit Deluxe with SpaceSaver 3.0,
Aladdin Systems, 408/761-6200, $120. Its many
conversion tools, automatic compression capabilities, reli-
ability checks, and acceptable performance make this product
the jack-of-all-trades of compression utilities. Aug 93
ititit Super 7 Utilities, Atticus Software, 203/
324-1142, $99.95. Collection of seven control panels/
extensions adds some ease of use to System 7, although
none of its functions are essential. Modules perform tricks
such as turning any menu into a tear-off palette, and ran-
domizing the sounds that play in response to errors. Apr 93
★ ★ TimesTwo 1.0.1, Golden Triangle Com-
puters, 619/279-2100, $149. Automatic
disk-compression utility operates at the disk-driver level. A
number of quirks, such as its ungraceful handling of full
disks, are problems. May 93
★★★★ Toner Tuner 1.0.3, Working Software,
408/423-5696, $24.95. Inexpensive, incredibly use-
ful extension adds a sliding bar to print dialog boxes allowing
you to adjust the amount of toner applied to each print job.
If you can't save trees, you can at least save toner. Dec 93
itititit ultraShield 1.252, usrEZ Software,
714/756-5140, $149. Sophisticated security product
combines practically every feature you might need into an
integrated package, including a lightning-fast version of the
U.S. government data-encryption standard. Dec 93
★★★ Virtual 3.0.1 , Connectix Corp., 41 5/571 -
5 1 00, $99. If you need to eke out as much virtual memory
speed as possible, this utility may be a useful tool. For Sys-
tem 6 users who want virtual memory, it’s the only game in
town. Sep 93
it it it Working Watermarker 1.02, Working
Software, 408/423-5696, $49.95. Simple, useful
system extension allows you to print or fax text and/or graph-
ics "watermarks” in the background of virtually any
document. Although it has imperfections, it's earned a per-
manent spot in our reviewer’s System Folder. Jan 94
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★ ★★ Compare-A-Loan 4.0.2 (4.1), Softflair,
612/894-3357, $79.95. Although geared to profes-
sionals, this product for home-loan evaluation provides
thorough documentation and is structured so that anyone
can use it. Apr 93
★ ★★ Expert Home Design 1.0 (1.0.3), Ex-
pert Software, 305/567-9990, $49.95. Quickly
and easily create home- or office-interior layouts that are
precise, but not as detailed as blueprints, with this interior
design software. May 93
itit Expert Landscape Design 1.0 (1.0.2),
Expert Software, 305/567-9990, $49.95. Bare-
bones drawing environment for experimenting with
landscape design is inexpensive, but its usefulness is severely
limited because of awkward color and pattern tools. Feb 93
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★★★★ Finale 3.0.1 , Coda Music Technology,
800/843-2066, $749. Upgraded music-notation soft-
ware is now infinitely more pleasant to use. Its comprehensive
feature set makes it the standard against which all other
music-notation products must be judged. Dec 93
'k'k'k LoanLease Library 3.0.3 (3.05),
Softflair, 612/894-3357, $99.95. If you are gener-
ating a loan or a lease and need to keep track of payments,
this well-documented program for loan evaluation is a worth-
while investment, despite its minor eccentricities. Apr 93
★ ★★★ Musicshop 1.0, Opcode Systems,
415/856-3333, $149.95. MIDI sequencer is an ex-
cellent choice as a first sequencer. It's powerful enough to
satisfy the needs of most MIDI users. Oct 93
if'kic Roll Call 2.0, By the Numbers, 603/
927-4508, $495. 4th Dimension database application
for church management helps track donations, attendance,
church-group membership, and visitation. While not a com-
plete church-management system, it's an acceptable
complement to a general accounting program. Aug 93
★★★ Sailing Master 1 .1 , Starboard Software,
313/662-4393, $64.99. Though the slow speed and
jerky motion point to less-than-polished programming, this
sailboat-racing simulation offers good tactical play and is
fun — well worth the price for sailing competitors. Nov 93
WRITING TOOLS
★ ★★★ Final Draft 2.0 (2.0.3), MacToolkit,
310/395-4242, $349. Script-writing gets simpler with
this well-conceived software that automates formatting of
different elements in a script. Customization is easy, and
macros automate typing of common phrases. Apr 93
Just Joking 1 .0, WordStar International,
41 5/382-8000, $49. HyperCard stack of around 2800
humorous quotations offers a serviceable selection of say-
ings from a diverse group of humorists, comedians,
philosophers, and writers, among others. Apr 93
★ ★★★ MacWrite Pro, Claris Corp., 408/987-
7000, $249. Many of the new features of this upgrade
are very well executed, including the easy-to-use table fea-
ture, simple but elegant palettes, and an almost pain-free
mail merge feature. Jul 93
irir MasterWord 5.1, Alki Software Corp.,
206/286-2600, $99.95. The centerpiece of this pack-
age of add-on Microsoft Word commands is a set of
customizable tool bars. Unfortunately, rough edges remain,
including inaccuracies in the documentation and some fea-
tures that don't work as advertised. Aug 93
★★★★ Microsoft Word 5.1 , Microsoft, 206/
882-8080, $495. Small, solid upgrade fine-tunes some
plug-in modules and adds new modules including an icon
tool bar and text annotation. It’s worth the upgrade price,
but it won’t give Word 5.0 users goosebumps. Mar 93
★ ★★ RightWriterforthe Mac 5.0, Que Soft-
ware, 31 7/573-2500, $99.95. Grammar checker looks
at writing style, word usage, punctuation, and capitaliza-
tion, as well as grammar. Customizable filters and multiple
approaches to analysis are nice, but — as with all grammar
checkers — not all the advice is great. May 93
itiicir ShowScape 4.1, Lake Compuframes,
914/941-1998, $429 to $679. This script-writing
software formats scripts ir either screenplay format or dual-
column format (for audio and video) and allows you to
choose the number of shots displayed per page, but it re-
quires you to own and work in WordPerfect. Apr 93
★ ★★ Spelling Coach Professional 4.0.1,
Deneba Software, 305/596-5644, $195. If you're
considering investing in reference software, this spelling
checker, dictionary, and thesaurus is a relatively capable, if
expensive, alternative. Oct 93
★★★★ Thunder 7 1.5.3, Baseline Publish-
ing, 901/682-9676, $99.95. Stand-alone spelling
checker and thesaurus interactively monitors your keystrokes
and alerts you to potential errors as they are entered. It
quickly and transparently prevents you from making em-
barrassing typos. Nov 93
★★★ TypeReader 1 .0, ExperVision, 408/428-
9988, $695. Speed and accuracy combine with a
straightforward operating style in this high-end OCR soft-
ware that doesn't do everything its competition does, but is
a major contender nonetheless. Feb 93
'k'kir VersionMaster 1.5, AStar Technologies,
508/486-8532, $199.95 to $1199.95. Document
management utility helps you archive and track versions of
a file by maintaining a database of altered documents. It's
recommended only for workgroups that routinely follow
check-out procedures. Apr 93
ic'k'k A Zillion Kajillion Rhymes 1.0, Eccen-
tric Software, 206/628-2687, $49.95. Rhyming
dictionary is quick, small, simple, and self-contained: but it
only rhymes with the roots of search words (and ignores
-ed, -s, and -ing endings). Nov 93
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icif ACS100, Altec Lansing Consumer Prod-
ucts, 717/296-2818, $180. Lightweight powered
speakers don't sound as good as they should. There's too
much emphasis on the high end at the expense of the
midrange, and they hiss noticeably. Dec 93
i^iir ACS150, Altec Lansing Consumer Prod-
ucts, 717/296-2818, $150. Subwoofer rounds out
the sharp tones of the ACS100, but the bass response is
neither punchy enough nor loud enough, and the unit is
about the size and weight of a concrete block. Dec 93
★★ Address Express, CoStar Corp., 203/661 -
9700, $795. Flaky performance and system crashes
plagued this envelope-and-label printer in our tests, but the
print quality was good. Oct 93
'A''A Apple Adjustable Keyboard, Apple Com-
puter, 408/996-1010, $219. Keyboard is only a slight
improvement on the flat slab keyboard. Theoretically, it
corrects ulnar deviation, but many sufferers of repetitive
stress injuries want a keyboard that adjusts vertically. Jul 93
ir'k'k'k AppleCD 300, Apple Computer, 408/
996-1010, $599. Double-speed CD-ROM drive spins
its discs at twice the speed of earlier drives, providing faster
access to large files. Jun 93
'k'k'k'k Apple Color OneScanner, Apple Com-
puter, 408/996-1010, $1349. Tests of this color
scanner demonstrate unpolluted colors and sharp image
details, perhaps due to color filters and lenses that Apple
claims were designed and tuned for the scanner. Jul 93
ififif AppleDesign Powered Speakers, Apple
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duce uncomfortably high volumes without noticeable
distortion, but the bare-wire-and-terminal connections aren’t
user-friendly. Dec 93
'kic'k Apple Newton AAessagePad, Apple
Computer, 408/996-1010, S699. Although Apple
released this personal digital assistant too early and mar-
keting hype led to mistaken expectations, this is a very
intelligent piece of work with an impressive variety of seri-
ous business uses. Dec 93
★★★ Apple PowerCD, Apple Computer, 408/
996-1010, $400. This extremely versatile and beauti-
fully designed portable CD-ROM drive offers impressive
audio and Photo CD features, but if you’re a serious CD-ROM
user, it’s too slow to satisfy. Jan 94
'k'k'k'k ArtZ ADB Tablet, Wacom Technology
Corp., 206/750-8882, $449. Combining pressure-
sensitive operation, manageable size, and a new pencil-thin
stylus, this affordable digitizing tablet is perfect for artists
looking for traditional-style control of their graphics pro-
grams. Aug 93
★ ★★ Computer Crayon, Appoint, 510/463-
3003, $49. The kid contingent’s verdict was a definite
thumbs-up on this brightly colored input device that’s shaped
like a thick pencil. The buttons can be hard for smaller chil-
dren to press, and serious computer artists should still opt
for a drawing tablet. Oct 93
★ ★★★ Coolscan LS-lOe, Nikon Electronic
Imaging, 516/547-4200, $2600. Compact desktop
scanner for digitizing images from 35mm transparencies is
slow, but delivers images good enough for newsprint pub-
lications and some catalogs. Dec 93
★ ★★ EAABARC, Embarc Communications
Services, 407/364-2000, $395 plus fees. If you're
a PowerBook user who is frequently in places with no tele-
phone and you need timely delivery of electronic news and
E-mail, this portable wireless message service may prove
useful, but the cost may be prohibitive to others. Sep 93
★ ★★★ Epson ES-800C, Epson America, 310/
782-0770, $1499; Macintosh interface kit $399.
Flexible 400-dpi scanner offers a range of options, includ-
ing one- or three-pass scanning, plus a full-featured,
easy-to-use software package. Aug 93
irir Gulliver, Appoint, 510/463-3003, $119.
This diminutive mouse is hard to hold comfortably for an
extended period, but it works well on almost any surface
and is an acceptable option for PowerBook users. Oct 93
'k'k'k Hello Music, Yamaha Corp. of America,
714/522-9240, $449.95. MIDI starter kit includes an
impressive tone generator that’s compatible with General
MIDI Level 1 and Roland MT-32, but the included software
is functional at best. Dec 93
iririr LightningSean Portable, Thunderware,
510/254-6581, $459. PowerBook owners will find this
hand scanner's modem- or serial-port connection, lightweight
interface, and total portability well worth the cost. The scan-
ner is incompatible with some desktop Macs. Dec 93
★ ★★★ Media Control Station 1.0 (1.01),
JLCooper Electronics, 310/306-4131, $269.95.
Versatile tool connects to the Mac through an ADB port
and offers an easy and intuitive way to cue and edit Quick-
Time movies, MIDI files, and other dynamic data. Feb 93
★ ★★ mira 35, Santos Technology, 310/320-
8888, 52695. This 35mm slide scanner puts many
sophisticated coior-correction tools into a low-cost pack-
age. It does have trouble resolving extremely fine details,
and its color correction is RGB only. Oct 93
★ ★★★ Mirror 800 Plus Color Scanner, Mir-
ror Technologies, 612/633-4450, $1299. Add the
optional NuBus JPEG board ($300) and the easy-to-use
35mm transparency scanning module ($599), and this is a
nifty— if slow— desktop scanning package for a reasonable
price. Jan 94
★ ★★★ PhonePro 1.0.3 (1.1.5), Cypress Re-
search Corp., 408/752-2700, $950. Application
makes it relatively easy to develop a multiple-choice voice-
mail system using your Mac, especially for those with
programming backgrounds. Feb 93
★★★ PowerLink Presentor, E-Machines, 503/
646-6699, $499. Simple, compact Duo dock wobbles
a bit when plugged in but provides fine support for a vari-
ety of displays, plus ports for ADB, floppy drive, and sound
output. Nov 93
iHrir ScanMaker 35t, Microtek, 213/321-
2121, $1999. Speedy 35mm film scanner accommodates
loose film and delivers a good image, but the included soft-
ware is weak. Dec 93
★★★ ScanPlus Color 6000 for Mac, PlusTek
USA, 408/980-1234, $749 to $899. Small, inex-
pensive sheetfed color scanner is not appropriate if exact
color matching is critical, but it is otherwise a good, eco-
nomical option Sep 93
★★★ The UnMouse, MicroTouch Systems,
508/659-9000, $199. Input device is a cursor-control
device, programmable keypad, and small graphics tablet in
one, and can be programmed with 60 macros (although
only 16 can be selected by sight). It's ergonomically better
than a mouse, but not as good as a trackball. May 93
★ ★★ Yamaha TG100, Yamaha Corp. of
America, 714/522-9011, $449. Compact, keyboard-
less, multitimbral MIDI synthesizer adheres to the General
MIDI standard patch arrangement. Although it won't con-
vince you that you’re hearing a live orchestra, the sound is
about as realistic as low-cost MIDI gets. Apr 93
MODEMS/NETWORK HARDWARE
icirkir AsanteHub 1012, Asante Technolo-
gies, 408/435-8388, $1299. This 12-port, lOBaseT
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device at a bargain price. Dec 93
kkk DataLink PB; Axcell Cellular Interface,
Applied Engineering, 214/241-6060, $824. If you
need a full-blown office on the beach, this PowerBook cel-
lular-modem package with automatic answering machine
is a well-executed solution. Each recorded second requires
25K of disk space. Nov 93
★ ★★ PerFit Port-A-Com, PerFIt, 303/530-
7333, $349. Compact, ADB-powered, high-speed fax/
data modem is difficult to configure, due to its Spartan and
poorly organized documentation, but is still a solid product
at a reasonable price. Nov 93
'kk'kk Sportster 14,400 Fax/Data Modem,
U.S. Robotics, 708/982-5001, $329. Several nice
features, including an easily accessible power button and a
front-mounted volume-control dial, make this 14, 400-bps
fax/data modem better than average. Feb 93
kirk SupraFaxModem 144PB, Supra Corp.,
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PRINTERS
'k'k'k Apple Color Printer, Apple Computer,
408/996-1010, $2349. If you need large-format color
output, but not precision color-matching, this well-built
printer is a reasonable choice, although It doesn’t support
PostScript. Aug 93
★ ★★★ Apple Portable StyleWriter, Apple
Computer, 408/996-1010, $439. Sleek, portable
Ink-jet printer weighs 4V6 pounds and is a pleasure to use. It
uses standard StyleWriter cartridges. Jan 94
iciricir DECIaser 1152, Digital Equipment
Corp., 508/493-5111, $999. Four-pages-per-minute,
300-dpi, PostScript Level 2 printer offers simultaneous sup-
port for Macs and PCs, plus excellent image quality, for a
ground-breaking price. May 93
★ ★★★ HP LaserJet 4/\A, Hewlett-Packard,
800/752-0900, $2399. An Intel 18960 RISC processor
makes printing complex Images faster than ever with this
600-dpi printer. Feb 93
★ ★★ LaserWriter Pro 600 and 630, Apple
Computer, 408/996-101 0, $2099 to $2529. From
their paper handling to their print quality, these laser print-
ers are Apple's best. Unfortunately, they don't support
emulation-sensing, and thus may be less desirable for mixed-
platform offices than other possibilities. Jun 93
★ ★★★ LaserWriter Select 300, Apple Com-
puter, 408/996-1010, $839. Inexpensive,
low-capacity printer is networkable, and an excellent buy,
despite a few weaknesses. Add a 4MB SIMM to take ad-
vantage of the amazing PhotoGrade capabilities, which allow
the printer to generate 91 shades of gray. Aug 93
'k'k LaserWriter Select 310, Apple Computer,
408/996-101 0, $1099. This big, slow printer is a true
Adobe PostScript printer with both Mac and DOS ports,
but it’s not networkable or compatible with the Com-
munications Toolbox, it can’t automatically switch ports,
and It doesn’t have adjustable paper guides. Aug 93
★ ★★ AAobileWriterPS, AAannesmann Tally
Corp., 206/251-5524, $999. Fast, portable printer is
currently the only PostScript portable available. While the
print quality is quite good on glossy laser paper, it’s medio-
cre on inexpensive bond. Dec 93
★ ★★ Phaser 200i Color Printer, Tektronix,
503/682-7377, $5995. This thermal-wax color printer
is fast and compact, with versatile paper-handling features.
TekColor image-enhancement technologies provide excel-
lent output quality that is, however, poor on letterhead and
inexpensive photocopier bond. Aug 93
^'Ar PrintPartner 1 0W, Fujitsu Computer Prod-
ucts, 408/432-6333, $2450. While this multiplatform
printer is fast and prints clearly, many Mac users will find it
frustrating as it can’t print some TrueType fonts. Jul 93
iriririK StyleWriter II, Apple Computer, 408/
996-1 010, $359. Apple’s Ink-jet printer retains the best
features of its predecessor, but costs less. New features,
such as gray-scale printing and the ability to share the printer
over a network, make it even more versatile. Jun 93
★★★ WideWriter, GCC Technologies, 617/
275-5800, $1699. Large-format output is reasonably
priced with this ink-jet printer that can automatically feed
sheets as large as 14 by 91 inches or manually feed sheets
17 Inches wide with an unlimited length. Feb 93
★ ★★ WriteAAove II, GCC Technologies, 61 7/
275-5800, $599. Portable printer for the PowerBook
measures 11 ’/i by 2 by 3V5 Inches and weighs 2’/i pounds.
It’s no speed demon, but it’s fine for short jobs. May 93
SYSTEMS/STORAGE
irif'k'k DataPak 105, Mass Microsystems,
408/522-1200, $949 to $1049. Well-built 105MB
SyQuest drive comes with a decent, no-frills cartridge-for-
matting package and a copy of 7th Heaven. The preformatted
cartridges have a lifetime warranty. Sep 93
'k'k'k'k FastCache Quadra, Daystar Digital,
404/967-2077, $299 to $449. PDS board provides
128K of secondary cache for a Quadra. The average real-
world speed improvement Is 15 percent, but some operations
benefit more from the cache card than others. May 93
irif HP Optical Disk Library 10LC, Hewlett-
Packard, 800/752-0900, $9495. Optical jukebox
may fill the need for 10 gigabytes of online storage, but its
performance is poor, and the software lacks the features
needed for adequate management. Jan 94
irif'kii: Infinity 105 Turbo, Peripheral Land,
510/657-2211, $795 to $894. Small, light, quiet,
inexpensive 105MB SyQuest drive is Ingeniously packaged
and ideal for both desktop and PowerBook use. Sep 93
if'k'k Infinity Optical 3.5, Peripheral Land,
510/657-2211, $1999. If you need the extra mea-
sure of permanence that magneto-optical storage
provides— or a compact alternative to bulky cartridges —
this drive, based on a Sony mechanism and using 3V6-inch
disks that store 120MB of data, deserves a look. Jun 93
★ ★★ Macintosh Centris 610, Apple Com-
puter, 408/996-1010, 4/80 $1859. Slim-design Mac
uses a 20MHz 68LC040 processor at a price-to-performance
ratio that comes close to competing with Windows PCs;
however, its expandability is severely limited. Jun 93
'k'k'k'k Macintosh Centris 650, Apple Com-
puter, 408/996-1010, 4/80 68LC040 $2699.
Moderately priced but fast 040 system offers three expan-
sion slots and one drive bay, and (except for the base model)
has built-in Ethernet, video circuitry, and a math coproces-
sor. Jun 93
iricir Macintosh Duo Dock, Apple Computer,
408/996-101 0, $1079. Clever housing for Duos pro-
vides back-panel connectors, a SuperDrIve, support for
external monitors, and two expansion slots. Some details,
such as the difficulty of installing NuBus boards, belie Apple’s
usual attention to detail. Mar 93
★ ★★★ Macintosh LC III, Apple Computer,
408/996-1010, 4/80 $1349. Base system comes
equipped with a 25MHz 68030 processor and 51 2K of
VRAM. This is a machine that fits the bill and the pocket-
book of most home or small-business owners. Jul 93
★ ★ ★ Macintosh PowerBook 1 45, Apple Com-
puter, 408/996-1010, 4/40 $2149. Adequate but
essentially outdated notebook computer Is an upgraded
PowerBook 140 with a faster 25MHz 68030 CPU. Feb 93
'kif'k'k Macintosh PowerBook 160, Apple
Computer, 408/996-1010, 4/40 $2429. A built-
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vides good processing speed and power, the passive matrix
display doesn’t cut it for all-day use. Feb 93
if if Macintosh PowerBook 1 65c, Apple Com-
puter, 408/996-1010, 4/80 $3399. The passive
matrix screen of this color notebook computer is dull and
has noticeable afterimages, but if your expectations are rea-
sonable. the speedy processor provides a pleasant envi-
ronment In which to work. Jul 93
★ ★★★ Macintosh PowerBook 180, Apple
Computer, 408/996-1010, 4/80 $4109. An ac-
tive matrix screen and math coprocessor are the only
differences between this computer and the PowerBcx)k 1 60.
but the beautiful display Is worth the extra $10(X). Feb 93
if if Macintosh PowerBook 180c, Apple Com-
puter, 408/996-1010, 4/80 $41 69. The active matrix
screen of this color notebook computer is beautiful but so
small that its usefulness is very limited. Sep 93
ifififit Macintosh PowerBook Duo 210 and
230, Apple Computer, 408/996-1010, 210 (4/
80) $1839, 230 (4/80) $2299. Apple’s smallest com-
puters have the pleasing heft of hardbound books but pack
the horsepower of 030 chips. Although the screen, key-
board, and trackball feel small, these computers virtually
cry out to be picked up and used. Mar 93
if if if if Macintosh Quadra 800, Apple Com-
puter, 408/996-1010, 8/230 $4679. Squat, yet
curvy and attractive, this minitower system has fewer ex-
pansion opportunities than the Quadra 950, but just as much
power. It's fast, slick, and moderately priced. Aug 93
if if if MicroMac Plus Upgrade System, Micro-
Mac, 714/362-1000, $998. This 68030 accelerator
for the Mac Plus requires disassembling a Plus and using
the Plus system board to assemble the MicroMac system. It
speeds up the Plus dramatically, and supports an included
external full-page monochrome monitor. Jun 93
if if if if MultiDisk 150, Iomega, 801/778-
1000, $1225. Durable cartridges are one of the strongest
reasons to choose this Bernoulli removable drive. Although
it’s slightly more expensive than a SyQuest drive, it's fast
and reliable, and the disks are competitively priced. Jun 93
★ ★★ OrangePC, Orange Micro, 714/779-
2772, $1799. NuBus board has a DOS processor, letting
you have your Mac and a PC, too. It’s fairly well executed,
though there are some minor problems. Oct 93
if if if if PowerBook 140 F/25 Upgrade, Digi-
tal Eclipse Software, 510/547-6101, $399. By
changing the oscillators and adding an FPU. Digital Eclipse
changes PowerBook 140s into 170s, minus the active ma-
trix screen. While the upgrade seems expensive, it’s the only
way to extend the viability of a 140. Dec 93
if if if if Quadra 840AV, Apple Computer,
408/996-1010, 8/230 $4069. Technological tour de
force uses a 40MHz 68040 and an AT&T 3210 digital signal
processor, and is brimming with sophisticated speech-rec-
ognition and audiovisual technology. Beware of some
hardware and software incompatibilities. Dec 93
if if if SmartStack, Envisio, 612/628-6288,
SmartSource $119; SmartModules $289 to
$1379. The SmartStack line of modular storage peripher-
als may be neatly stacked on top of a common power supply
to reduce desktop clutter and cabling problems. Sep 93
if if if Turbo 040, DayStar Digital, 404/967-
2077, $1899. This accelerator card is equipped with the
fastest 68040 chip available, and is as fast as or faster than
any Macintosh in processor-intensive tasks. For the price,
however, it may make more sense to trade up to a faster
computer. Dec 93
VIDEO/DISPLAY
ififif AudioVision 14 Display, Apple Com-
puter, 408/996-1010, $769. Monitor integrates audio
and video with built-in speakers that produce surprisingly
rich, full-bodied sound. The display, while nice, is small for
multimedia work. Dec 93
ififif BookView Imperial, Computer Care,
612/371-0061, $1399 (includes 6MB of RAM).
This notebook-display adapter supports all common sizes
of monitors. It is expensive, however, and uses 2MB of sys-
tem memory for video processing. Feb 93
★ ★★ Dycam Model 3, Dycam, 818/998-
8008, $895. Low-end, digital still camera is easy to use,
and is a solid product if Instamatic grade gray-scale meets
your image-quality requirements. Sep 93
★★★ Editing Aces Suite, RasterOps, 801/785-
5750, $3899. Video professionals can record and play
back full-screen movies in 24-bit color with 1 6-bit CD-quality
sound with this collection of products. Despite flaws, this
package represents a step forward in QuickTime technol-
ogy. Nov 93
ififif L-TV, Lapis Technologies, 510/748-
1600, $349. Interface board allows a Mac LC, LC II, or
Performa to use a TV as a display. Unfortunately, a TV is a
poor substitute for a monitor, so while the L-TV does its
job. the setup is unsuitable for many applications. May 93
ififif Lightning Effects II, Spectral Innova-
tions, 408/955-0366, $1295. Digital-signal-processor
chips dramatically speed up some Photoshop operations with
this expensive Photoshop-acceleration board, it had prob-
lems acquiring some JPEG files. May 93
ifififif MovieMovie, Sigma Designs, 510/
770-01 00, $349. This 7-inch NuBus video-capture board
may be what you've been waiting for. The price is right,
and the addition of on-board audio input is a plus, even if it
is only mono. Dec 93
ififif PaintBoard Turbo, RasterOps, 408/562-
4200, $1499. Midrange video board supports 24-bit color
on monitors up to 1 7 Inches and resolutions as high as 1 024
by 768 pixels. If you can live without changing resolutions
on the fly, it's a reasonably good deal. Oct 93
★ ★★ Power Portrait, Sigma Designs, 510/
770-0100, $899 or $949. Hook your Classic or Power-
Book to this 15-inch portrait-style monochrome display.
Built-in QuickDraw acceleration speeds up the slow SCSI
connection on the one hand and results in a few software
incompatibilities on the other. Feb 93
if it it if PowerVision, Mirror Technologies,
61 2/633-4450, $499 to $999. Separate VRAM means
you don't lose system memory with this nicely priced note-
book display adapter. Feb 93
★ ★★★ Thunderstorm, SuperMac Tech-
nology, 408/245-2202, $699. Photoshop-accelera-
ation board uses digitai-signal-processor chips to speed up
some Photoshop operations. It’s fast, with good JPEG com-
patibility and a great manual. May 93
ififif VideoToolkit 2.0.1, Abbate Video, 508/
376-3712, $279. Despite a few rough edges, this is an
attractive, inexpensive solution for those who need to cata-
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any of its trio of Ethernet, LocalTalk, and Token Ring network
analyzers (Jan 94 ★★★★—"priced at a small fraction of the
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when purchased direct (800/466-2447) with a 12- or 24-
month service contract. For example, the EtherPeek prod-
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owners of any non-Apple formatting utility for $99. Its $799
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expire before 2/28/94.
MasterFinder 1.2.1 Olduvai Corp. is offering this
$149 Finder utility (Nov 92 ★★★★—"most potent feature is
its ability to manipulate multiple files and folders at the same
time") direct (305/670-1 112, 800/548-5151) to users of any
file-management utility for $39. Offer expires 3/31/94.
DISCOUNTS/REBATES/FREE OFFERS
addDepth 1.0.2 Ray Dream is offering this $179
graphics utility for enhancing 2-D images with 3-D effects
(Aug 93 ★★★—"versatile. accommodaUng, and affordable")
direct (800/846-01 1 1) for $99 (includes 30-day money-back
guarantee). Offer not to expire before 1/31/94.
ArchiCAD 4.02 Craphisoft’s PowerPC Upgrade Plan
reimburses new buyers of this $4450 architectural CAD soft-
ware (Jun 92 ★★★★—“powerful, full-featured. Integrated")
$500 with the PowerPC logic board or accelerator upgrade of
their choice, provided purchase of the upgrade Is made with-
in three months of introduction. The cost of this upgrade plan
is $95. ArchiCAD 4.5 for PowerPC and 680X0 Macs is due for
release next spring. For further information, call Graphisoft at
800/344-3468. Offer expires 1/31/94.
Avid VideoShop 2.0 Avid Technology's Desktop
Video Group is offering this $499 QuickTime video-edibng
program (Feb 94 ★★★ — "shines in its intuitive, easy-to-use
interface") direct (800/394-3482) for $88 as an extention of
its San Francisco Macworld Expo special. Offer expires
1/31/94.
BigFont Collection TigerSoftware is offering this col-
lection of 2000 professional, scalable typefaces that have
been digitally transferred by a prestigious type foundry for
razor-sharp output. Rivaling Adobe, Agfa, Bitstream, Image
Club, Monotype, and Microsoft in both quality and diversity,
each face Includes a complete lexicon. There are 10 TrueType
or PostScript font libraries to choose from, with Individual
library volumes of 200 fonts each, available on disk. One
200-font volume sells for $59, two volumes for $79. and
additional volumes are $39 each. The entire 10-volume col-
lection is $379 on CD-ROM, and $399 on disk. Call Tiger-
Software (800/230-6299) to order and to obtain the com-
plete BigFont catalog. Offer not to expire before 2/28/94.
Multiclip 2.1.7 Olduvai Corp. is offering this next-to-
most-recent version of its $149 Clipboard/Scrapbook-
replacement utility (see Aug 90 review for version 2.0) direct
(305/670-1112, 800/548-5151) for $9.95 (plus S&H). Pur-
chase includes free MultiArt collection of clip art and sounds,
plus special price of $39.95 for MuIbClip 3.0 upgrade. Offer
expires 3/31/94, or until supplies are depleted.
PowerBooks and Apple Peripherals Apple Com-
puter is offering “instant" rebates at the point of sale (after
signing a rebate verification form) to customers who purchase
a qualifying product ($100 for a PowerBook 165, 165c, or
PowerBook Mini Dock; $150 for a PowerBook 145B or Duo
Dock; $2(X) for a PowerBook 180 or Apple 16" Color Display:
$300 for a Duo Dock with 230MB HD or Apple Color Print-
er; $350 for Duo 230 4/120 or Duo 230 4/80 with floppy
adapter and external drive; $450 for a PowerBook 180c;
$500 for Duo 230 4/160 with Duo Dock and Express
Modem). To locate a participating reseller, call 800/538-
9696. Offer expires 1/31/94.
Software Dispatch for Macintosh Apple Comput-
er's Software Dispatch business unit is offering this CD-ROM
software-delivery system that permits customers to try, com-
pare, and buy more than 80 third-party software applications
via guided tours and limited trial versions. A QuickTime tuto-
rial explains the trial and purchase process. These CDs are to
be updated quarterly with new versions and applications.
Customers can call an 800 number at any time to purchase
keys that unlock software and manuals for Immediate instal-
lation. Call 800/937-2828, ext. 600, to obtain free discs.
Tableworks Plus 1 .06 Npath is offering this publish-
ing utility XTension for adding table-creation and -editing
facilities to QuarkXPress (Jan 94 ★★♦★—"a must-have for
anyone doing even mildly complex tables" for version 1.05)
direct (206/392-7745) or through XChange (800/788-7557,
ext. 1010) for $249 (regularly $299). Offer expires 1/31/94.
TransWarp 6400 Series Accelerators Applied
Engineering is offering a $50 rebate on the selling price of its
line of 25MHz, 33MHz, and 40MHz 68040 accelerators for
the Mac lid, llsl, llvx, and Performa 600-the $849 6425f,
$999 6433f, and $1249 6440f. To qualify, customers must
turn in their old cache or expansion card to Applied Engi-
neering or any authorized dealer. For further details about the
$50 Cache-Back program, call 800/554-6227. Offer not to
expire before 3/31/94. m
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Setting the standards for innovation. Glare/Guard anti-
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No.
Advertiser
Reader
Srvc. No.
Phone
Page
No.
Advertiser
Reader
Srvc. No.
Phone
Page
No.
''■'“‘irtiser Si.
Phone 1
26
Aatrix Software
159
800/426-0854
12
GDT Softworks
42
800/663-6222
188-189
RasterOps 90
800/SAYCOLOR
155D
Agfa/Scanner
158
800/685-4271
175,177-179
GE Information
97
800/638-9636
176
Agio Designs
—
800/688-2446
212
Global Village
156
800/736-4821
48
Aladdin Systems
195
408/761-6200
157
Graphsoft
46
410/290-5114
136-137
Seiko Inst. USA 149
—
140-141
Aldus
—
800/685-3517
78
Sharp
20
Aldus Consumer
Electronics Corp. 13
800/BE-SHARP
Division
145
800/888-6293
166-167
Hewlett Packard
—
—
202
Sophisticated
203-204
America Online
—
—
100-101
Hewlett Packard
—
800/SCANJET
Circuits 1 1 8
800/827-4669
46
American Power
121
Hewlett Packard
—
800/LASERJET
241 H
Specular International 41
800/433-7732
Conversion
72
800/788-2208
74
HSC Software
5
310/392-8441
80
StatSoft 99
918/583-4149
8
Anthro
—
800/325-3841
170
Steck-Vaughn
198
Apple
—
—
Publishing Company 19
800/531-5015
158-159
Applied Engineering
168
800/554-MACS
10
Image Club Graphics
50
800/661-9410
13
Supermac 88
800/334-3005
195
Applied Engineering
167
800/554-MACS
240
Inline Software
61
800/453-7671
225
Supra 132
800/967-8772
Are Technologies
—
239
Insignia Solutions
68
800/848-7677
40
Symantec-SAM 180
—
172
ASO Software
170
800/255-6227
65
Inspiration Software
104
800/877-4292
168
Symantec-NUM 85
—
28
Attain Corporation
6
617/776-1110
155C
Iomega
111
800/967-0326
201
Axion
56
800/8AXION1
190
Techroggin. Inc. 94
800/305-7936
BC
Kensington
62
Tektronix 143
800/835-6100
174
Berkeley Systems
—
800/248-0800
Microware Ltd.
—
800/535-4242
39
Teleware. Inc. 194
800/851-1315
220
Brookstone
—
800/225-3326
60
Caere Corp.
69
800/535-SCAN
15-19
La Cie
52
800/999-1182
44
UsrEz Software 36
714/756-5140
287
CD ROM
—
800/225-3326
227
Lapis Technologies
107
800/43LAP1S
215
Central Point Software
93
800/277-3873
155B
LaserMaster
43
800/950-6868
66
Charles River
14
Lind Electronic Design
82
800/659-5956
214
VST Power Systems 73
508/287-4600
Analytics Inc.
18
800/913-3535
67
Checkmark Software
34
800/444-9922
9
Chinon America. Inc.
64
800/441-0222
152-154
Mac Zone. The
70
—
6-7
WordPerfect —
800/526-7820
171
Chipsoft
—
800/964-1040
58
MacAcademy
106
800/257-1914
237
Citizen America
68-73
MacConnection
—
800/800-3333
Corporation
83
800/4-PRINTERS
10
MacTable/Scanco
—
800/722-6263
209
Xante Corporation 1
800/926-8839
76
Claris
—
800/544-8554
244
Macworld Expo
—
—
84-85
Claris
—
800/544-8554
208
Macworld Expo
—
—
229
Coactive Computing
243
Mapinfo Corporation
11
800/327-8627
Corp.
142
800/825-2NET
216
Maxis
40
510/254-9700
131-133
Communication
24
MicroNet Technology
113
714/463-6100
Intelligence Corp.
—
800/888-9242
173
MicroNet Technology
139
714/453-6100
109
CompuServe
66
800/848-8199
IFC-1
Microsoft
—
110-111
Computer Associates
10
800/225-5224
193
Microtek Lab. Inc.
169
800/654-4160
200
Connectix
189
800/950-5880
148
Mirror Technologies
125
800/643-0624
23
Contemporary
149
Mirror Technologies
122
800/643-0624
Cybernetics Group
188
804/873-9000
147
Mirror Technologies
124
800/643-3384
233
Corel Corporation
78
800/836-3729
238
MSA Inc.
130
800/366-4622
Turn rn thf MArwoRi n
30-31
Creative Labs
51
800/998-LABS
194
Multi-Ad Services
187
800/447-1950
222
CTX International 38. 39
909/595-6146
208
MWCDV
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TO FiND ADDITIONAL
176
Dantz Development
26
510/253-3000
156
National Instruments
71
800/433-3488
ADVERTISERS.
82
DataViz
79
800/733-0030
IBC
NEC Technologies
16
800/NEC-INFO
231
DataWatch
37
919/549-0711
2-3
NEC Technologies
17
800/NEC-INFO
187
Dayna
56
No Hands Software
27
800/598-3821
Communications
161
801/269-7200
210
Now Software
133
800/275-5669
32
Oaystar Digital
7
800/DIGITAL
22
nView Corporation
117
800/736-8439
49
Delrina Technology
23
800/268-6082
99
Delrina Technology
137
800/268-6082
29
Deneba Software
57
800/6CANVAS
246
OCLI
129
800/949-5053
196-197
Digital Equipment
Corporation
120
800/DEC-INFO
155A
Personal Training
Systems
44
800/832-2499
27
E-Machines
136
800/344-7274
43
Pinnacle Micro
55
800/553-7070
122-123
310-311
207W
Eastman Kodak
Educorp
Engineered Software
45
157
12
800/CD-KODAK
800/843-9497
919/299-4843
45
47
Pinnacle Micro
PU
115
108
800/553-7070
800/288-8754
InfoFAX
50-51
Epson
—
800/BUY-EPSON
235
QMS
800/392-7559
For instant faxed back information from
170
Quantum Leap
QMS...
11
42
Focus Enhancements
Fractal Design
163
190
800/538-4888
800/647-7443
Technologies
101
305/446-4141
call 1-800-234-0455
800/227-2795
and enter extension 502.
219
Radius
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Product Index
A quick and easy product index from Macworld. Simply use this index to find the
page or advertiser of the products which interest you. Then, use the reader service
number for our FastFacts Product Information Card located on the following page.
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Srrc. No.
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Srvc. No.
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Srvc. Na
Advertiser
Reader
Srvc. No.
SOFTWARE
NETWORKING
56
No Hands Software
27
BUSINESS
26
Aatrix Software
159
OCR
20
Aldus Consumer Division
145
Caere Corp.
69
28
Attain Corporation
6
67
Checkmark Software
34
PERSONAL
76
Claris
—
171
Chipsoft
—
84 85
Claris
—
110 111
Computer Associates
10
POWERBOOK
3031
Creative Labs
51
40
Symantec-SAM
180
231
DataWatch
37
168
Symantec-NUM
85
49
Delrina Technology
23
SECURITY
65
Inspiration Software
104
IFC-1
Microsoft
—
44
UsrEz Software
36
56
No Hands Software
27
STATISTICAL
210
Now Software
133
National Instruments
StatSoft
71
99
155 A
80
Personal Training Systems
StatSoft
44
99
156
80
39
67
Teleware, Inc.
WordPerfect
194
UTILITIES
48
Aladdin Systems
195
CAD/CAM
172
ASD Software
170
207W
Engineered Software
12
174
Berkeley Systems
—
157
Graphsoft
46
215
Central Point Software
93
66
Charles River Analytics Inc
. 18
CD ROM
200
Connectix
189
233
Corel Corporation
78
176
Dantz Development
26
122123
Eastman Kodak
45
231
DataWatch
37
310311
Educorp
157
12
GDT Softworks
42
170
Quantum Leap
238
MSA Inc.
130
Technologies
101
210
Now Software
133
170
Steck-Vaughn
40
Symantec-SAM
180
Publishing Company
19
168
Symantec-NUM
85
COMMUNICATION
VERTICAL
3031
Creative Labs
51
26
Aatrix Software
159
82
DataViz
79
156
National Instruments
71
49
Delrina Technology
23
239
Insignia Solutions
68
WORD PROCESSING
76
Claris
—
EDUCATIONAL
67
WordPerfect
—
279
Educational Resources
28
155A
Personal Training Systems
44
HARDWARE
170
Steck-Vaughn
Publishing Company
19
BOARDS
195
Applied Engineering
167
ENTERTAINMENT
158-159
Applied Engineering
168
174
Berkeley Systems
—
219
Radius
14
99
Delrina Technology
137
188-189
RasterOps
90
240
Inline Software
61
13
Supermac
88
216
Maxis
40
CD ROM
GRAPHICS/DTP
9
Chinon America, Inc.
64
140 141
Aldus
—
310311
Educorp
157
84-85
Claris
—
267
SuperMicro
126
110-111
Computer Associates
10
233
Corel Corporation
78
COMPUTER SYSTEMS
29
Deneba Software
57
198
Apple
—
122-123
Eastman Kodak
45
280 281
BottomUne Distribution
63
42
Fractal Design
190
268
Printer Connection
91
74
HSC Software
5
10
Image Club Graphics
50
DIGITIZERS/SCANNERS
158
194
Multi-Ad Services
187
1550
Agfa/Scanner
241 H
Specular International
41
50-51
Epson
—
100 101
Hewlett Packard
—
MISCELLANEOUS
193
Microtek Lab. Inc.
169
12
GDT Softworks
42
149
Mirror Technologies
122
65
Inspiration Software
104
DISPLAY
243
Mapinfo Corporation
11
222
CTX International 38 b 39
MULTIMEDIA
252-253
Express Direct
81
42
Fractal Design
190
227
Lapis Technologies
107
284-285
MacNews
172
148
Mirror Technologies
125
"f.
147
Mirror Technologies
124
209
Xante Corporation
1
IBC
NEC Technologies
16
22
nView Corporation
117
SECURITY
46
American Power
EXPANSIONS/UPGRADES
Conversion
72
195
Applied Engineering
167
158-159
Applied Engineering
168
VIDEO
32
Daystar Digital
7
147
Mirror Technologies
124
219
Radius
14
HARD DISKS/STORAGE
188-189
RasterOps
90
274 275
Alliance Peripheral
13
Supermac
88
Systems
62
280-281
BottomUne Distribution
63
SERVICES
282-283
Club Mac
96
23
Contemporary
ON LINE
Cybernetics Group
188
203 204
America Online
279
Direct Connections
121
109
CompuServe
66
273
International Mac
175,177-179
GE Information
97
Specialists
103
155C
Iomega
111
TRADESHOWS/CONFERENCES
15 19
La Cie
52
287
CD ROM
257
MacDirect
58
244
Macworld Expo
276
MacProducts USA
175
208
Macworld Expo
24
MicroNet Technology
113
173
MicroNet Technology
139
TRAINING
43
Pinnacle Micro
55
58
MacAcademy
106
45
Pinnacle Micro
115
47
PLI
108
ACCESSORIES
267
SuperMicro
126
277
Third Wave
186
FURNITURE
INPUT DEVICES
176
8
Agio Designs
Anthro
—
131-133
Communication
10
MacTable/Scanco
Intelligence Corp.
—
BC
Kensington
MISCELLANEOUS
Microware Ltd.
—
10
MacTable/Scanco
202
Sophisticated Circuits
118
246
OCLI
129
MISCELLANEOUS
60
Caere Corp.
69
MAIL ORDER
131-133
Communication
274275
Alliance Peripheral Systems 62
Intelligence Corp.
282-283
Club Mac
96
BC
Kensington
279
Direct Connections
121
Microware Ltd.
279
Educational Resources
28
252-253
Express Direct
81
MODEMS
273
International Mac
212
Global Village
156
Specialists
103
225
Supra
132
152-154
Mac Zone, The
70
269-272
Mac's Race
250
NETWORKING
256
MacCenter
105
201
Axion
56
68 73
MacConnection
—
229
Coactive Computing Corp. 142
257
MacDirect
58
187
Dayna Communications
161
258-266
MacMall
131
11
Focus Enhancements
163
284 285
MacNews
172
276
MacProducts USA
175
POWERBOOKS
254 255
MacWarehouse
150
27
E-Machines
136
278
Microtech Int’l
116
227
Lapis Technologies
107
148
Mirror Technologies
125
14
Und Electronic Design
82
149
Mirror Technologies
122
190
Technoggin, Inc.
94
268
Printer Connection
91
214
VST Power Systems
73
277
Third Wave
186
PRINTERS
237
Citizen America Corporation 83
196 197
Digital Equipment
Corporation
120
166 167
Hewlett Packard
—
121
Hewlett Packard
—
155B
LaserMaster
43
23
NEC Technologies
17
235
QMS
—
136-137
Seiko Inst. USA
149
78
Sharp Electronics Corp.
13
62
Tektronix
143
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oiQ 999- 100
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B. Which of the folltwing computers are
Installed at lliis entire wrk-siuj?
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os □ Apple Workgroup Seners/
Mac Quadra-series
06 □ Mac Cenlris-series/Il-series/I.C III/
Performa600/450/SK30
07 □ Mac LC/I£ Il/Perfomia 430/405/
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or services? (Check one.)
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pnoduct/capabilitiesdeatures
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brands/models
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will this entire work-site spend on
.Macintosh products and/or services?
(CJxjckone.)
25 □ $1 million or more
26 LI $999,999-5500.000
27 □ $499,999 -$100,000
28 □ $ 99.999 -$50,000
29 □ $49,999 -$10,000
50 □ Under $10,000
G. Considering the entire wnrk-site. which
of iIk* following .Macintosh hardware
and software products are currently
installed? (Check all tliat apply.)
31 □ Basiness software (Word
processing, spreadsheet,
database, etc.)
.52 □ Graphics/publishing software
33 □ .Monitors/display's
.54 □ Printers/scanneis
35 □ Netwnrking^communications
hardware and/or software
56 □ Multimedia/AV hardware
and/or software
.57 U Mobile computing products
(Powerfiooks. peripherals,
.software, etc.)
H. W hat is your primary job function?
(Check one.)
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59 ui .MM)P/lSA’etwt)rk .Management
40 □ Engineering
4 1 J R&D/Scientific
42 J Corporate/General Miuiagement
45 □ .tounting/Finance
44 □ .Marketin^ales/PR/
Communications
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How Macintosh could have taken over the world
i ACK IN I9H4 VVniiN WE
launched the Macintosh, one
of the slides we used in pre-
sentations was a drawing of a
man in a blue suit with a “No”
symbol around him. It stood
for no blue suits, or no IBM.
We used this slide because
one of our main goals for
Macintosh was to send IBM
back to the typewriter busi-
ness with its (Selectric) balls in
hand. .Another major goal was to domi-
nate the personal computer business —
out-IBMing IBM, if you will.
That was ten years ago this January.
IBM still exi.sts, albeit bruised and bat-
tered, and it doesn’t just sell typewriters.
(In fact, it has spun off that business.) And
Macintosh has not dominated the per-
sonal computer market (unless you count
V\Rndows machines as Macintoshes).
Looking back, I have to wonder what
we could have done to achieve our goals —
Machiavellian as they may have been.
Here are a few ideas.
The Early Days
We should have shipped Macintosh with
256K of RAM. We lived under two mis-
conceptions: (1) that 128K was an ocean
of RAM (compared with an Apple 11, it
was); and (2) that ever}' Macintosh pro-
grammer would be as good as Andy
Hertzfeld, so more RAW wasn’t neces-
sary. If the first Macintosh had shipped
with 256K of RAM, there would probably
have been Macintosh software six to nine
months earlier. Lesson: You can never
have too much RAM, and you can never
underestimate the difficulty of learning to
program a new computer.
We should have designed slots into
the second version of Macintosh. Unfor-
tunately, we were so exhausted, exhila-
rated, and stubborn that development
sputtered for a year. Steve Jobs passion-
ately disapproved of slots despite the de-
mands of early buyers, because he wanted
people to be able to open the box, plug it
in, and go. Lesson: Buyers can’t help you
create a revolutionar}^ product, but they
can tell you how to evolve one.
We should have unbundled Mac-
Write in the middle of 1984. Initially,
bundling MaeWrite was supposed to last
for the first 100 days. However, when it
became clear that fewer people might buy
Macintosh if they had to pay for Mac-
Write and MacPaint, bundling continued
for months. Unfortunately, this delayed
good Macintosh word processors for
years. I consider myself a good evangelist,
but my pitch, “Write a word processor for
Macintosh, and just ignore the fact that
we give one away with every computer,”
didn’t cut it. As it is, we’re still muddling
along with an outdated, anemic version of
Microsoft Word completely dominating
Macintosh word processing. Lesson: If
you’re asking .someone to help you, in-
spire them; don’t compete with them.
The Windows Menace
We should have launched the legal mis-
siles at Microsoft when they first showed
us Windows. Instead we wimped out
when Gates threatened to stop working
on Macintosh applications if Apple didn’t
license the look and feel of Macintosh to
Microsoft. Clint Eastv\'ood had the right
response: “Go ahead. Make my day.”
Gates was bluffing — and if he wasn’t
bluffing, he would have changed his mind
because he was making too much money
on Macintosh applications. Lesson: It’s
better to be feared than to be fooled.
Apple should have licensed source
code to Macintosh to all comers in 1989
or 1990 — when Macintosh was hot and
Windows was not. Imagine if John
Sculley had cocked his .44 magnum and
told Gates, “We’re going to sue you for
copyright infringement, and we’re going
to license Macintosh source code to evety
hardware manufacturer in America.
There Mil be a legal cloud over Windows
for years, and the manufacturers will be
able to get The Real Thing instead of a
clunky imitation.” Les.son: If you’re pack-
ing a bigger gun, don’t be afraid of a
shoot-out.
Apple should have launched a frontal
assault on Windows — lawsuit or not —
while simultaneously lowering the street
price of an entry-level Macintosh to un-
der $ 1 000. Aside from a few ads last year
(too little, too late), Apple hasn’t made it
clear that Macintosh blows Windows
away. We needed industrial-strength
mudslinging, early on, while seeding the
market with loss-leader Macintoshes to
produce Quadra-lusting, upgradin’, long-
run customers. Instead, we got namby-
pamby “positioning” encumbered by the
fear of offending the largest Macintosh
application software provider.
Looking Back
Hindsights are always perfect. The point
is not that we blew it. The point is that we
came so close (most pundits predicted the
death of Macintosh between 1985 and
1987), and tliat we should learn from our
mistakes so that someday the whole world
will dream in six colors, m
GUY KAWASAKI'S views are his own and only sporadi-
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Hindsights, will be published by Beyond Words
Publishing in January. He has investments in Bit
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Corporation, and others. He can be reached at
Kawasaki@radiomail.net.
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